ASE15.7 has provided many long requested features, especially the latest ESD#2.
* threaded kernel
* storage compression (data, LOB, in-row LOB)
* fully recoverable DDL
* DB shrink (only transaction log at the time being)
* drop column without data copy
* online data reorganization
* merging, moving and splitting partitions
* fast-logged bcp
* materialized views (Precomputed result sets)
* concurrent dump database and dump tran
* hash-based update statistics
* application functionality group
* deferred table creation
* sybdiag
* …and many more

Wow, Sybase's future has never been brighter!