Sybase and Quant House Partner to Offer Next Generation Trading Strategies for Capital Markets


New Solution for Financial Institutions Delivers On-Demand Trading Strategies for Back Testing

PARIS, TRADETECH 2007, April 23 - Sybase Inc. (NYSE:SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and Quant House, a leading provider of program trading solutions, today announced a strategic alliance to jointly deliver a solution for algorithmic trading strategies for back testing and regression testing for financial services organizations.

Using Sybase® IQ analytics server, Quant House will deliver an efficient solution to enable back testing on-demand with full access to resources, including market replay servers and market data repository. This will enable algorithmic/quantitative back testing trading strategies that are central to financial institutions using program trading technologies. Together, Sybase and Quant House's solutions of low-latency market data expertise, fiber optic networks and engines will deliver these strategies to the market.

"By enabling financial services organizations to manage back testing on virtually any set of real-time and historic market data, the combination of Sybase and Quant House offers a cutting-edge trading solution to financial services organizations," said Steve Shine, vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Sybase, Inc. "Central to this offering will be the ability for the financial organizations to increase competitive position in the market and continue to see ROI at an exceptionally low total cost of ownership. Sybase is very pleased to work with Quant House to deliver the vision of trading strategies back testing on demand. "

"With this new announcement, we are pioneering a new way to perform back testing, allowing clients to leverage Quant House worldwide fiber optic networks and hosting facilities together with Sybase's proven storage and messaging technology which power 90 percent of the world's securities firms and 60 percent of its banks," said Pierre-Francois Filet, CEO and co-founder of Quant House.

The Sybase IQ analytics server is optimized for highly demanding environments. Sybase IQ captures, consolidates, and stores vast amounts of market and transaction data into a powerful repository. As a result, this gives firms the ability to perform analysis on larger data sets, with longer histories. Because of Sybase IQ's scalability and speed it allows for more concurrent queries and concurrent users. As a company, Sybase has a history of delivering high-performing, scalable and reliable solutions in the dynamic world of capital markets where data protection, Business Continuity Processing and Disaster Recovery, as well as flexibility, are critical for financial organizations.

Quant House is a provider of end-to-end program trading strategies with proximity hosting facilities in Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt. The solutions include, low-latency market data technologies, fiber optic network services, execution engines, and trading strategies development framework to enable firms to 'trade ahead.'

About Quant House

Quant House's mission statement is to provide end-to-end program trading solutions to hedge funds, proprietary desks and asset managers to trade ahead. Quant House has the benefit and support of a very experienced group of investors. The Investor group is led by one of the world's largest global brokerage organisations, FIMAT International Banque, a subsidiary of Societe Generale group.

For more information about Quant House and its solutions for quant traders, please visit: www.quanthouse.com/.

About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world's most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com/.

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CONTACT:

Stephane Leroy of Quant House,

+44 (0)207 676 8100,

or leroy@quanthouse.com;

or Joan Fronske of Sybase, Inc.,

+1-925-236-4893,

or joan.fronske@sybase.com

Web site: http://www.sybase.com/

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