SDL International, a leading globalization products and solutions company, today announced that Sybase, Inc. has integrated the Enterprise Translation Server™ into the Portal Translation Manager option available for Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 Portal Translation Manager (PTM) will provide real-time translations of documents or data flowing through the portal upon request, and is fully integrated with portal security and other services. Sybase offers an evaluation version of the Enterprise Translation Server to its customers as part of the Portal Translation Manager. The Enterprise Translation Server provides Portal Translation Manager business clients with a cross-language communication solution using real-time translation.

 
The Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP) is a customizable platform offering that integrates global business IT systems and personalizes them for the Web. By integrating the Enterprise Translation Server into the portal offering, Sybase now offers its customers a powerful translation solution that enables real-time translations of portal applications, Intranet and Web pages. Instant real-time translation provides corporations with the power to deliver information to and communicate with customers, suppliers and employees in multiple languages.

"Our portal customers integrate data from anywhere in the enterprise, which can be anywhere in the world, in any language. They need instant and reliable translation capabilities at their fingertips," said Tim Fallen-Bailey, director of the Global Products Group at Sybase. "SDL International's Enterprise Translation Server enables Sybase to provide a scaleable, multilingual solution for our Enterprise Portal customers."

"Multinationals now realize that the success of any globalization strategy will depend heavily upon their ability to effectively communicate across the numerous languages on the Internet in real-time," said Mark Lancaster, chairman and chief executive of SDL International. "With the integration of the Enterprise Translation Server into the Portal Translation Manager, Sybase offers its customers a powerful real-time cross-language solution that will enable them to communicate to a global audience instantly."

Pricing

The Enterprise Translation Server starting price is USD $25,000. Contact SDL International to learn more about the Enterprise Translaton Server evaluation program. The Portal Translation Manager pricing starts at USD $29,995 and is available with 24x7 support. Contact Sybase to learn more about the Portal Translation Manager or the Enterprise Portal.

System Requirements

The Enterprise Translation Server runs under WindowsNT and enables the translation of plain text and document files over a Lotus Notes/Domino environment, a TCP/IP networking environment, a Microsoft networking environment, Java or HTML clients. Portal Translation Manager extends access to the Enterprise Translation Server to any platform supported by the Enterprise Portal.

About Real-time Translation

Real-time translation systems such as the Enterprise Translation Server are linguistically sophisticated machine translation (MT) products programmed with comprehensive dictionaries and a collection of linguistic rules that translate one language into another without relying on human translators. An MT system interprets the structure of sentences in the source language (the language the user is translating from) and generates a translation based on the rules of the target language (the language the user is translating to). The process involves breaking down complex and varying sentence structures, identifying parts of speech, resolving ambiguities, and synthesizing the information into the components and structure of the new language


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About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase provides enterprise-class software solutions that fuel e-Business and enable access to information anytime, anyplace. With its industry-leading Enterprise Portal (EP), mobile and wireless, and vertical market solutions, Sybase is one of the largest global independent software companies in the world. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com.
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Special Note: Statements in this release concerning Sybase, Inc.'s anticipated first quarter revenues and earnings and full year earnings are forward looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include accounting adjustments for the Q1 2001 close; sales productivity; general business conditions; market growth rates in the client/server and Internet software markets; the outcome of Sybase, Inc.'s tender offer for NEON shares; the ability of Sybase, Inc. to successfully integrate NEON into Sybase, Inc.; possible disruptive effects of organizational or personnel changes; shifts in customer demand; market acceptance of the Company's products and services; customer and industry analyst perception of the Company and its technology vision and future prospects; rapid technological changes; competitive factors; unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability dates; interoperability of the Company's products with other leading software application products; and other factors described in the Company's reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000.