Digital Equipment Corp may have disposed of its own database products to Oracle Corp, but it doesn’t mean that Oracle has won itself a privileged position in database with DEC, and the Maynarder has turned to Emeryville, California-based Sybase Inc for multimedia database software. The two are to integrate the Sybase Intermedia and Digital Mediaplex product lines to create a complete system architecture for authoring, delivering, and managing interactive television services. The non-exclusive agreement calls for the two to dedicate the necessary engineering and management resources to deliver the combination early next year. The two say they that will also collaborate on a new generation of free-standing low-cost multimedia production systems for interactive television development environments.
