Shares in Sybase Inc have been looking wan after fears surfaced that the company’s new parallel processing server wouldn’t measure up to the equivalent Oracle Corp product – but, reports Dow Jones & Co, investors quickly decided that the product represents only a small part of Sybase’s business, and the share prices rebounded; the slide was said to have followed a Gartner Group report claiming that the Sybase System 10 parallel server didn’t work as well as Oracle’s parallel server; there were also fears from analysts that some components of System 10, including the parallel processing server and replication technology, were falling behind their planned ship dates.
