Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAP) report, authored by William Clark and Michael King (December 2009).

“We believe that more than 95% of organizations will be choosing MEAP or packaged mobile application vendors as their primary mobile development platforms through 2012,” states the Gartner report. “From 2010 through 2013, the number of enterprises choosing multichannel MEAP vendors will rise 10% annually.”

“Sybase is in the best position to support the movement away from siloed mobile applications to the mass adoption of mobility across the entire enterprise. With the growing number of end users and device types to the demand for real time access to information, our enterprise mobility platform is unrivaled in the industry,” said Gary Kovacs, Senior Vice President, Markets, Solutions & Products, Sybase. “We believe our position in Gartner’s leader quadrant is further validation of the significant advancements made to our Sybase® Unwired Platform and success in building out our partnership ecosystem.”

Sybase Unwired Platform leverages the vast experience Sybase has in delivering mobility to hundreds of thousands of customers and users over the last 20 years. The platform addresses difficult mobile application challenges, such as back-end integration, development and support of mobile applications on multiple diverse device types, and secure access and management of these heterogeneous mobile devices, all within a highly reliable push data synchronization architecture.

To learn more about the 2009 Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant, Gartner clients may access the report on www.gartner.com. For more information on Sybase Unwired Platform, please visit www.sybase.com/sup.