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Bloomberg reported that SAP is close to buy Sybase for about $6 billion. Sybase shares literally jumped today on stock market while a report said the company is in merger talks with German software SAP.

Real news ? or propaganda for traders profits ? You read more information about the possible Sybase SAP $6 billion deal on Reuters web site here.

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UPDATE May 12, 2010 5:20 PM ET: The Sybase board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction and SAP AG confirms it will acquire Sybase. See it here

Sybase is back with 3 new technical webcasts about Replication Server 15.5. Sybase webcasts series are very valuable to acquire additional knowledge from Sybase experts. The Replication Server’s webcasts are scheduled from May through June 2010 as follow:

Part 1: Replication Server 15.5 Overview

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
(10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT)

Part 2: Real-Time Loading for Sybase IQ

Thursday, May 20, 2010
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
(10:00 am – 11:00 am PT)

Part 3: Replication Server and Performance

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
(10:00 am – 11:00 am PT)

You can join Sybase experts webcasts for FREE: Register Here

This year Sybase User Training & Solutions Conference, formerly known as TechWave, will be held August 9-11 at the Hilton Washington, in Washington, DC. Sybase TechWave is a useful and informative event where you can share or improve your products knowledge. The event is scheduled as follow: a free day for prospects and business guests, and a fee to attend the multi-day technical training. They even plan to expand the event by including an additional day of technical training.

Visit http://www.sybase.com/techwave for more details.

Sybase iAnywhere announced recently a new version of its Software Developer Kit that will help developers and product managers incorporate Bluetooth® capabilities into Android devices.

See more here

This happened in May 2008, Sybase and Sun Microsystems have build the world’s largest data warehouse based on Sybase IQ and a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server.

The data warehouse is certified to support one Petabyte of mixed relational and unstructured data.

In total, the data warehouse contains six trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable documents, such as e-mails, reports, spreadsheets and other multimedia objects. According to Sybase it is twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date.