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Sybase is First to Offer Spatial Database and Synchronization for Mobile Devices

Mar 22, 2010
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This release of Sybase’s SQL Anywhere database will make Sybase the first vendor to offer the development of data-driven spatial applications for leading smartphone devices as well as synchronize of spatial data; giving organizations the ability to provide field workers with access to spatiaal and business data in a scalable way.

Said David Sonnen, IDC’s consultant for Spatial Information Management. “Spatially-enabled Sybase SQL Anywhere addresses the occasionally-connected environment gap that exists in the spatial market today.” And “We expect the Spatial Information Management market to continue to grow at a healthy, compound annual rate over the next several years,”
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