Comparing Sybase ASE database to MS SQL, PostgreSQL

Is Sybase targeting MS SQL or PostgreSQL or both? That's what developers and DBAs have been asking themselves after last week's big announcement by Sybase that it has released a free (as in beer) version of the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database - which Sybase claims is the first free Linux enterprise-class database for production use.

When last week Sybase launched a free version of their flagship database for Linux, Sybase ASE Express Edition for Linux, developers naturally stopped to take a look since many are permanently on the qui vive for an alternative to Microsoft SQL Server.

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