DUBLIN, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Sybase, Inc., a leading enterprise infrastructure and integration company, and SGI announced that Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), Sybase's enterprise-class relational database management system, is a preferred database for technical and creative applications in SGI's target markets including government, healthcare sciences, and media. This announcement strengthens the companies' commitment to providing customers with open, multi-platform, highly scalable solutions that address the unique data management requirements of these vertical markets. "Effective alliance relationships are critical for vendors targeting specific vertical market needs in the enterprise application market," said Stephen Graham, group vice president, Global Software Partnering and Alliances, IDC. "The alliance between Sybase and SGI provides an important foundation for the development of solutions that focus on the unique data management requirements of the government, healthcare sciences and media markets." Sybase and SGI are committed to the optimization, support, sales and marketing of ASE for technical and creative applications, which are typically critical to an enterprise. The companies plan to continue to run Sybase ASE on the SGI systems with MIPS processors and running the IRIX operating system that leverage the SGI NUMAflex shared-memory system architecture. "Sybase and SGI have many mutual customers in the government, healthcare sciences and media sectors, so it makes sense that we continue to work together and provide our customers with open, scalable solutions that can be customized easily to meet their demanding data management needs," said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager, Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division. "ASE running on the SGI IRIX platform with MIPS processors and SGI's NUMAflex shared-memory system architecture signifies our commitment to address the scalability, high availability and integration needs of our customers." "Sybase's open approach and expertise in databases and data integration are excellent complements to SGI's expertise in handling supercomputer-class data workflows with its scalable, high-performance NUMAflex shared-memory system architecture and ultra-fast CXFS shared file system," said Knut Korsell, vice president of applications engineering, global alliances and industry marketing at SGI. "The data management requirements of our customers to efficiently use best-of-breed technologies in integrated multi-platform environments maps well to the capacity of Sybase ASE."