SAP Completes Tender Offer for Shares of Sybase, Inc.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the completion of the cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Sybase, Inc., by Sheffield Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP, which expired at 9:00 p.m., New York City time on Monday, July 26, 2010. American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the depositary for the tender offer, has indicated that, as of the expiration of the tender offer 80,929,717 shares of common stock of Sybase had been tendered into and not properly withdrawn from the tender offer (including 9,293,901 shares of common stock tendered pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures).

These shares represent approximately 92.1% percent of Sybase’s outstanding shares of common stock, or 91.8% percent on a fully diluted basis (as determined pursuant to the previously announced merger agreement between SAP America, Sheffield Acquisition Corp. and Sybase). All Sybase shares that were validly tendered into the offer and not properly withdrawn have been accepted for payment.

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