Marrow Donor Program wins award

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — The National Marrow Donor Program(R) (NMDP) accepted a prestigious 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Award for its solution to an unmet medical need utilizing innovative Sybase, Inc., (Nasdaq: SYBS) technology. The custom solution for the NMDP was judged to be a world-class information technology achievement. A case study of the award-winning technology will be permanently added to the Smithsonian's collection of information technology research, chronicling highlights of the Information Age.

"As a worldwide leader in e-business solutions, we are particularly honored that our customer, The National Marrow Donor Program, has received this distinguished award for solutions developed for the critical healthcare vertical market," said John Chen, chairman, president and CEO of Sybase. "In addition to contributing to the information technology revolution, Sybase is proud to facilitate our customer's efforts to enhance and enrich our society."

The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards were founded in 1988 to document the rapid revolution in information technology and recognize innovative vision and leadership. Since 1991, 185 Sybase customers have been nominated for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, including 16 finalists and three category winners. Each winning case study is permanently housed and available for review at the Archives Center in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Created in 1986, the Minneapolis-based NMDP is a non-profit organization that facilitates unrelated donor stem cell transplants for patients with life-threatening blood diseases who do not have matching donors in their families. Currently, the NMDP facilitates more than 100 transplants each month. The NMDP provides a single point of access for all sources of blood stem cells used in transplantation: marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood. The Registry is able to search its own database and provide physicians with information on multiple stem cell sources for life-saving transplants. Since it began operations in 1987, the NMDP has provided transplants to almost 10,000 patients.

With the utilization of Sybase's Enterprise Application Server(TM), Power J(R), PowerDesigner(R), Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise, and Replication Server(R) products, the NMDP is able to match marrow and blood stem cell donors with patients in need of transplants efficiently.

Founded in 1988, the Computerworld Smithsonian Program searches for and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways. Case studies from the 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Collection will be available at http://www.cwsmithsonian.org , the official Internet site of the Computerworld Smithsonian Program, where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide.

Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc., is one of the largest global independent software companies. Sybase helps businesses integrate, manage and deliver applications, content and data anywhere they are needed. The company's products, combined with its world-class professional services and partner technologies, provide a comprehensive platform for integrated, end-to-end solutions in mobile and embedded computing, data warehousing and Web environments. Sybase focuses especially on Enterprise Portal (EP) solutions, which give businesses the ability to extend their enterprise to customers, partners and suppliers by converting stored data into useful information, which can be organized, integrated and personalized for use anywhere at anytime. Sybase customers represent the industries leading the global economy, with strong concentrations in financial services, public sector, telecommunications and healthcare. The company's Web address is http://www.sybase.com .

Source: Sybase Inc.