Sybase is still quite popular in the investment banking world. GS is a big enough client that their ASE 12.5 installations are still being supported despite it officially being EOL for everyone else...
I think BGI is using an even older version. Those guys handle a few billion trades a day using Sybase, and I don't see them upgrading any time soon. They tried switching to Oracle a few years back but the project got canned.
When I was there at BGI, almost all the business logic was encoded in Sybase triggers & stored procs. It was pretty painful debugging a trade due to all the triggers.
When I was there at BGI, almost all the business logic was encoded in Sybase triggers & stored procs. It was pretty painful debugging a trade due to all the triggers.