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'We're pleased by Sybase iAnywhere's commitment to the BlackBerry development community and look forward to the coming launch of SQL Anywhere 11,' said Jeff McDowell, VP of Global Alliances at Research In Motion, as Sybase iAnywhere announced it will shortly preview SQL Anywhere for the BlackBerry platform from RIM.

“SQL Anywhere for BlackBerry sets new standards for data reliability and performance of mobile line of business applications,” says Chris Kleisath, Senior Director of Engineering at Sybase iAnywhere.

“Developers and enterprises alike can unwire their enterprise by building on their existing investment in the BlackBerry platform, enabling mission critical data to flow seamlessly and reliably from the data center to their frontline decision makers,” Kleisath added.

SQL Anywhere 11, including support for BlackBerry OS 4.1 and later, will be available in the second half of 2008, he said.

The SQL Anywhere database and data synchronization client provide several new key features to BlackBerry developers:

• SQL Anywhere UltraLite relational database including transactional integrity, indexes, and SQL data access;
• Rich, bi-directional heterogeneous data synchronization capabilities including direct support for Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and MySQL back-end databases
• A pure Java ME implementation with an extremely small footprint well-suited for the BlackBerry environment.

“Applications being deployed on mobile devices are becoming increasingly complex as the capabilities and resources of the devices increase, often approaching PC functionality,” noted Jack Gold, President of J.Gold Associates, LLC. “However, the complexity of these applications often exceeds the data capabilities included in the native device OS. A robust, secure and easily synchronized data base, such as Sybase SQL Anywhere, is required to enable the same level of data integrity and manipulation as available on PCs and servers,” Gold said.