“In a bid to expand the customer base for its database software, Sybase Inc. released on Wednesday a free, limited version of its software for deployment on Linux systems.

Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) Express Edition for Linux uses the same technology as Sybase’s flagship ASE RDBMS (relational database management system), which competes against enterprise database software from Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. The new ASE Express Edition is free for both development and production use, though it is limited to one CPU (central processing unit), 2G bytes of RAM and 5G bytes of total data storage. The software can be downloaded from Sybase’s Web site.”