manager-bookstore.com - SYBASE SOFTWARE POWERS 1999 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP

Sybase today announced that it will provide software,
services and support for the 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer
Tournament, which kicked off in the United States on June
19, 1999. As a marketing partner, Sybase software will help
run the month-long tournament's accreditation, results
gathering and distribution systems. Sybase was part of the
technology team that delivered the most advanced information
system ever developed for any single sporting event with
France'98, the Men's World Cup Soccer Tournament.

"We're excited to have Sybase on board as an official
marketing partner for the Women's World Cup Tournament,"
said Marla Messing, WWC President. "Sybase's technology is
World Cup tested and we feel secure that we have the most
advanced technology systems in place for our tournament."

The application used by the statisticians at each venue was
built with Sybase's development tool PowerBuilder. The
accreditation system developed for this year's tournament
will populate Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere databases.
This will run on Hewlett-Packard laptops and Sybase Adaptive
Server Anywhere will communicate with Sybase Replication
Server to update the Adaptive Server Enterprise database
located at the Organising Committee headquarters in Los
Angeles. The solution will support the process of providing
credentials to press, participants and support staff at each
venue. The data from the games will be distributed to the
public via Sybase's PowerDynamo so that fans will have
access to up to the moment game scores and highlights
throughout the tournament.

"We're excited to be associated with the 1999 Women's World
Cup Soccer Tournament -- which is slated to be the largest
women's-only sporting event in history," said John Chen,
chairman, CEO and president of Sybase, Inc. "Our
record-breaking performance last year with the France '98
Men's World Cup Tournament was an excellent way to showcase
our best-of-breed technology.

"We broke four Guinness Book of World Records including the
most popular Internet event and most visited web site with
over 1.1 billion hits in one month and the most hits on an
Internet site in one day with over 73 million hits. That
included over 10 million hits in one hour and over 200,000
hits in one minute. We're looking forward to providing
similar, robust technology solutions for the Women's World
Cup this summer."

Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is one of the
ten largest global independent software companies. The
company helps businesses integrate, manage and deliver
applications, content and data anywhere they are needed.
Sybase's products, combined with its world-class
professional services and partner technologies, provide a
comprehensive platform for delivering the integrated
solutions businesses need to be successful. Leveraging its
existing strengths in enterprise data management and
enterprise application development, Sybase, Inc. is focused
on delivering end-to-end solutions for mobile and embedded
computing, data warehousing, and Web computing environments.
Sybase customers represent the industries leading the global
economy, with strong concentrations in financial services,
public sector, telecommunications and media and health care.
The company's Web address is http://www.sybase.com.

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