Sybase iAnywhere has announced that SQL Anywhere version 11 is now available to the marketplace. With more than 10 million deployed seats, SQL Anywhere is designed to be widely deployed in environments with little or no onsite IT support. Thousands of application partners worldwide embed SQL Anywhere in server, desktop, remote office and mobile applications.

SQL Anywhere 11 provides enterprise-caliber database features such as embedded full-text search, parallel sorting, and immediately maintained materialized views by optimizing them for environments outside the data center. In addition, SQL Anywhere continues to advance its mobile database and synchronization leadership, including support for BlackBerry devices, MySQL, and background data synchronization. New developer features in SQL Anywhere 11, along with a new Web Edition target the emerging Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications.

SQL Anywhere 11 has over 200 new features and enhancements:

• Performance, Reliability, Scalability by setting a TPC-C performance record for solutions less than $35,000 through significant multi-user performance enhancements such as index compression and simple statement caching; query performance improvements such as parallel sort, parallel index scans, and index-only retrieval have also been added;
• Frontline Analytics provides advanced data analysis in remote locations with enterprise features including embeddable full-text search, regular expression searching, immediately maintained materialized views, read access to mirror servers, and OLAP support;
• Advanced Synchronization across occasionally connected networks through a new Relay Server architecture, load balancing and high availability features, background synchronization, new synchronization client platform support including RIM BlackBerry and embedded Linux and support for MySQL;
• Developer Freedom to use development tools and technologies of choice. SQL Anywhere 11 extends its broad support for languages and platforms with external stored procedures written in .NET and Perl, full .NET 3.5 support (ADO.NET 3.5 provider, Entity Framework and LINQ support), Visual Studio 2008 integration, and enhanced support for PHP, Perl, and Python.

SQL Anywhere 11 Pricing and Availability
The free developer edition of SQL Anywhere 11 is available for download. The SQL Anywhere 5 User Server package is available at $599 and the SQL Anywhere 10 User Server package is available at $1,099. Licenses for additional users are available starting at $119. SQL Anywhere Server is also available at $2,499 per CPU, which licenses an unlimited number of networked clients. Additionally, the SQL Anywhere High Availability Option is priced at $1499 per CPU. A MobiLink High Availability option to take advantage of server farm capabilities is available in Version 11 starting at $49 per seat. To learn more, visit http://www.ianywhere.com/sqlanywhere.