Sybase, Inc. was an

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and services company. The company produced software to manage and analyze information in

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s, with facilities located in California and

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. Sybase was acquired by

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in 2010; SAP ceased using the Sybase name in 2014.

History

*1984: Robert Epstein, Mark Hoffman, Jane Doughty, and Tom Haggin founded Sybase (initially trading as ''Systemware'') in Epstein's home in

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. Their first commercial location is half of an office suite at 2107 Dwight Way in Berkeley. They set out to create a

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(RDBMS) that will organize information and make it available to computers within a network. *March 1986: Systemware enters into talks with

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to license Data Server, a database product built to run on

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computers. Those talks led to a product called Ashton-Tate/

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1.0, shipping in May 1989. *May 1991: Systemware changes its name to Sybase. *January 1998: Sybase announced that it had found inconsistencies in profits reporting from its Japanese division, and would restate the financial results for the company for the last three quarters of 1997. Five executives in Sybase's Japanese subsidiary were found to have used side letters to artificially inflate the profits from their operations. Following a class-action lawsuit, the five executives involved were fired. *November 1998:

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is appointed Chairman, CEO, and President. *2007: Sybase crossed the $1 billion mark. *March 2009: Sybase and SAP partner to deliver the SAP Business Suite software to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and other devices. *May 2009: Sybase begins packaging

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business intelligence software with its Sybase IQ server. *September 2009: Sybase and

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partner to manage mobility services for enterprises worldwide through Verizon's Managed Mobility Solutions, which uses Sybase's enterprise device management platform. *May 2010:

and Sybase, Inc. announced SAP America, Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Sybase, Inc. for all of the outstanding shares of Sybase common stock at $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion. *July 2010: On July 30, 2010, SAP AG announced it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc., with Sybase surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP America. *October 2012: All Sybase employees are incorporated into SAP's workforce. In 2012-10-30, SAP announced Sybase, Inc. CEO and President

leaving Sybase, effective on 2012-10-31, after leading Sybase for 15 years.John Chen to Leave SAP After Successful Integration of Sybase
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