Today I noticed that Sybase is giving its ‘developer and production’-ready Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux away for free. Well, there are limitations: you’re only allowed to run it on a single processor with 2 GB RAM. And the maximum size of the database can only be 5 GB.
As somebody who was first introduced to Sybase, I think this is a step in the good direction. It’s free, but not yet open-sourced. Additionally, I think Sybase should offer more than that 5 GB. Postgres’ size (for example) is unlimited.
For me personally, I’ll be figuring out if I can get it to work on one of my servers. That will be fun.