Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux

Slashdot reports that Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux. Not open source, but as a free product. Sybase is not that uncommon as a data warehousing platform in very large businesses, and the skills are rare (only 10,000 sybase certified DBAs, vs over 120,000 MCDBAs), and Sybase DBAs get paid quite well, so this could be a way to sharpen up some skills with a certification without having to shell out the investment for the software.

Slashdot suggests that this could be targeted at SQL Server (since they are very similar - SQL 6.5 was purchased from Sybase, and both use the same TSQL syntax for stared procedures), but I doubt that. Seems to me more oriented at the Open Source options that run on Linux (and are eating up that market share).