Sybase Inc has a new release of the Sybase relational database management system, and the company says that a key feature is the ability for applications based on different languages to access simultaneously a common database: the international release of Sybase supports the ISO 8859-1 character set which supports 13 languages; other new features include alternate collation sequences, alternate date, money and number formats, native language system messages, tools to convert to other languages, and the ability to specify a language other than English as a default language; also, the company has enhanced Sybase SQL Server, Sybase SQL Toolset and Sybase Open Client; Sybase is headquartered in Emeryville, California and its UK subsidiary is located in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
