Nov, 2001 : Sybase Offers 50% Discount, Incentives for EAServer

📅 November 5, 2001 - Sybase Inc. (sybase.com) last week announced its aggressive Open Advantage Campaign for EAServer, offering a 50 percent discount for qualified customers who switch to Sybase's enterprise class application server.

"In addition to an enterprise-class application server that is half theregular price, customers who switch to EAServer are also benefiting from aproduct that is, on average, 250 percent faster than the application serverfrom a leading competitor," said Billy Ho, senior vice president and generalmanager of Sybase's e-business division.
EAServer, according to Sybase material, handles individual tasks in ane-business environment on an average of 250 percent faster than applicationservers from other vendors. "This latest performance test is a clearindication of how far Sybase EAServer has raised the bar for applicationservers," said Billy Ho. "Once an enterprise is on the Web, it can nevercontrol the number of people who use its web-based services. Therefore, itneeds to enable all e-business transactions quickly and must be able toservice each customer equally well. That is why speed, scalability and highreliability are of such paramount concern to the enterprise."
The Sybase Performance and Testing Lab conducted extensive performance testsof EAServer and competing application server products. They used adistributed software-testing tool, OpenSTA, capable of simulating hundredsof thousands of virtual users. Testers also used a bookstore applicationcalled Nile.com, complete with a typical set of tasks necessary for areal-world electronic commerce site to perform. These included logging auser on, creating a customer account, browsing through a catalog, searching,filling a shopping cart and checking out. Each server underwent 25 tests.
Sybase EAServer performed an average 250 percent faster than leadingapplication server providers. EAServer's speed is achieved with newperformance-enhancing features including object caching, JSP/Servlet pagecaching, in-memory failover, HotSpot VM support, EJB local interface and Webserver redirector plug-ins.
The EAServer Open Advantage program is for companies using and evaluatingcompetitive application servers for current or future development projects.Qualified customers who participate in the Open Advantage program willreceive a 50% discount off EAServer and PowerBuilder 8.0 Object Architect,and a 30% discount off EAServer education classes. They will also gainaccess to e-business analyst white papers focusing on strategies fordeveloping and deploying high performance and cost effective e-businessinfrastructures, successful Web development methodologies, and utilitiesdesigned to speed the development and deployment process for e-businessapplications.
The program runs through Dec. 31, 2001.