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A small database vendor, Ants Software, is aligning its new database product, the Ants Compatibility Server, with Oracle. It plans to assist Sybase users to migrate their database applications and database systems to Oracle.

According to president and CEO of Ants IBM's Informix customers are likely to be its next target to move to Oracle.
Burlingame, Calif., start-up Ants Software previously billed itself as a high-performance relational system. It's now emphasising its ability to migrate database users away from Sybase to Oracle through its US$20,000-US$25,000 Compatibility Server. Ants will continue to offers its core systems, Ants Data Server, as a relational database product.

Sybase continues to offer its core Adaptive Server Enterprise relational system, which competes with Oracle. And Sybase maintains a steady 3.2 percent of the market, unchanged from the year before, compared to Oracle's 44.4 percent.

Sybase also offers an iAnywhere mobile database product, which leads in market share in the mobile database segment.

Sybase will soon announce Version 15.0.2 of Adaptive Server Enterprise that builds on our patented encryption/security and data integration technologies.
Ants believes the time is right to encourage the users of minority databases to migrate to Oracle, although it has nothing against its Compatibility Server being used to migrate from Oracle to other systems.
The Sybase database goes away and its future work is handled by Oracle. Oracle itself offers a migration workbench that helps with about half of a migration, but Ants strategy is to weigh in and help with the second half, which was previously left to manual programming. As each member of the consortium succeeds in converting another application, successive efforts will become increasingly automated and easier.