It's not what you think - the hidden jewel for the near term may just be SQL Anywhere. Read on. Disclosure: I worked at Sybase in the last millennium, when it hit the wall at $1B the first time and bounced. Over the next few years, Oracle dramatically outdistanced itself, in large part, as it turned out, because of the massive opportunity presented by SAP. Thousands of huge installs atop the Oracle DBMS, and not one with Sybase. Why? Because of a technology disagreement. SAP wanted row-level locking. Sybase's answer: "Let us tell you why you're wrong to want it." Leaving aside the lesson to be learned from that one, let's talk about how much the newly acquired Sybase database portfolio does for SAP. I'm leaving the best for last, because all the chatter has been about ASE and IQ, but read to the end.

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