Sybase Customers Win Prizes in DB Scalability Program

Winter Corporation, a leading center of expertise in database scalability for e-business, enterprise applications and business intelligence, announced that several Sybase Inc customers have won prizes in Database Scalability Program 2000. Among them is comScore Networks, a provider of infrastructure services to the Internet economy. Partnering with Sybase for database management system, Dell Corporation for server, and EMC Corporation for storage, comScore won a Grand Prize in the Decision Support Systems category for Database Size, NT Only.

Database Scalability Program 2000 analyzes the characteristics of the world's largest databases, and examines databases supporting the world's largest workloads. These vast data repositories anchor e-commerce, business intelligence, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, resource management, and other business-critical applications.

Winter Corporation is a consulting firm that specializes in the design, architecture, implementation and management of large-scale databases. The company provides research, consulting, and education services that help users and vendors define their database solutions, architect their implementations, and manage their scalability issues. The company focuses on database technology near, at, and beyond the frontier of scalability.

The Sybase Business Intelligence group provides high-performance data warehousing technology along with customer relationship management (CRM) applications to its customers and partners. The group's goal is to deliver repeatable solutions that address business needs in vertical industries. Sybase applications and technologies enable customers to achieve customer- and Web-centric data warehousing solutions that increase competitive marketplace advantage.

"The Winter Database Scalability Program has provided us with a forum to showcase some of our most leading edge implementations," said Deborah Harrington, director, Sybase Business Intelligence Division. "It is an excellent way to reward those who are leading the frontier in scalability."

"We're honored to be the grand prize winner of Winter Corporation's Database Scalability Program for database size on NT," said Ric Elert, vice president of Engineering. "Our company processes hundreds of gigabytes of data daily, and this number is constantly increasing. This data warehouse is the backbone of comScore's business, and the entire team works hard to make sure it runs efficiently and scales with our growing needs. We're thrilled to be recognized by our peers who specialize in this area."

Database Scalability Program 2000 is sponsored by EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Informix Software, Microsoft Corporation, NCR Corporation, NetGenesis Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc and Sybase Inc.

In announcing the leading entrants, Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation, noted that every year, business success depends on managing larger data volumes, users populations, and database workloads. "By using the architectures, products, and practices best suited to their needs," he said, "Database Scalability Program winners are leading us into a new era of scalable business solutions. Our program applauds both the users and the vendors responsible for these ground-breaking implementations."

Looking ahead to the 2001 program, Winter added:

"We'll investigate Web-based services such as application service providers, and offer a way to measure the return on investment of these projects. As businesses seek to turn knowledge of customers' Web behavior into competitive advantage," he continued, "we'll explore CRM [customer relationship management] and e-CRM more thoroughly." Data collection for the 2001 program is scheduled to begin in the fall.

Winter Corporation will announce all program winners at a Web conference on March 27th, 1 PM, EST. For more information, contact Winter Corporation on the World Wide Web at www.wintercorp.com, info@wintercorp.com or by calling 617-695-1800.

Contact Winter Corporation, Kathy Auerbach, 617-695-1800, Kathy.Auerbach@wintercorp.com.