 As John Gallant and Eric Knorr noted in "IT World", Sybase had been a strong competitor of Oracle, but had become a "dead company" after failing to enter the market for enterprise applications, as Oracle had.Chen and his team proceeded to reinvent Sybase as an "enabler of the 'unwired enterprise'".In so doing, Chen and his team led a re-invention strategy that moved the mature, slower growth technology company into being a high-growth innovator, valued at $6 billion in 2010.