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COSCO Container Lines Selects Sybase

Sybase Inc, a leading e-Business solutions provider, announced that COSCO Container Lines Co Ltd has signed a $2.8 million contract with Sybase Software (China) Co Ltd COSCON will deploy Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise, Replication Server, Open Client and jConnect in its IRIS-2 System for data collection, storage, conversion, processing and analysis.

The COSCON contract increases Sybase's infiltration into China's marketplace, and further strengthens Sybase's leadership in the transportation and energy sectors in China.

COSCON is a leading company specializing in container transportation under COSCO Group (China Ocean Shipping Company). Its business scope ranges from international and domestic container transport by sea, space booking, ship's chartering, shipping agency, ship's trade, ship's stores, spare parts, provision and bunkers, to other shipping-related businesses, on-land enterprises, telecommunications service, labor leasing service, warehousing and multi-modal transport. Its clientele extends from Asia to Europe and North America. With the ubiquity of the Internet, customers constantly look for higher efficiency and up-to-the-minute status information of their cargo shipments. To stay at the forefront of global cargo shipment development, COSCON enhanced its systems and operations to place more focus on customer satisfaction and better customer services.

"The IRIS-2 system has been launched and is in operation. The new system helps COSCON manage its cargo shipment tracking system. The efficiency of the container consumption rate has been significantly improved, which has helped to enhance the overall business operation," said Danny Fung, General Manager of Sybase Software (China) Co Limited. "Sybase's innovative technology has, again, been acknowledged by a leading company in the industry. A project of this size further reinforces our leading position in the financial, telecommunications, taxation, transportation and energy sectors in China."

With industry-leading technology, Sybase products will play a critical role in COSCON's re-engineering process. Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise database management system will become a centralized e-Business platform to connect systems in disparate geographical locations, fulfilling the requirements of Enterprise Portals (EP), high performance on-line transaction processing performance (OLTP), heterogeneous loading environment and data warehousing. Sybase's Replication Server will help allow data replication among different mainframes and servers, providing powerful replication capability for mass unstructured data replication in distributed systems. Open Client, a client-side application suite, will run on a versatile programming interface for effective front-end applications. jConnect, a component of Sybase's powerful Java development tool PowerJ, will provide high-speed data access for excellent connectivity to the database management system.

About Sybase Inc

Sybase provides enterprise-class software solutions that fuel e-Business and enable access to information anytime, anyplace. With its industry-leading Enterprise Portal (EP), mobile and wireless, and vertical-market solutions, Sybase is one of the largest global independent software companies in the world. For more information, visit www.sybase.com.

About COSCON

COSCON is the COSCO Group's flagship company for container transportation. COSCON currently owns 118 container vessels with a total capacity exceeding 200,000 TEU. A global recognized leader in shipping liners, COSCON connects more than 100 ports around the world with over 20 main shipping routes. At COSCON, customer satisfaction is a top priority. Through its extensive sales and services network, COSCON is committed to provide customers with fast and quality global container transportation. Shanghai COSCON, part of COSCON worldwide sales and services network, provides business and support services in Eastern China and Yangtze River Delta Region. For more information, please visit COSCON's Web site: www.coscon.com.

Contact Julie Connolly of Sybase Inc, 510-922-8696, julie.connolly@sybase.com.