Sybase, based in Dublin, California, hopes those customers will instead turn to its software. Although Sybase ASE is available for Windows, Linux and Unix, Sybase is releasing only ASE Express for ...

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

Sybase is providing a free licence for ASE Express Edition for Linux, but is not releasing the source code of the database.