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EXHIBIT 99(a)(1)(C)

Notice of Guaranteed Delivery

For Tender of Shares of Common Stock

including the Associated Preferred Share Purchase Rights

of

Sybase, Inc.

at

$65.00 Per Share

Pursuant to the Offer to Purchase Dated May 26, 2010

by

Sheffield Acquisition Corp.

a wholly-owned subsidiary of

SAP America, Inc.

an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of

SAP AG

(Not to be used for Signature Guarantees)

 

THE OFFER AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 9:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY

TIME, ON THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED.

This Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, or one substantially equivalent to this Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, must be used to accept the Offer (as defined below) if certificates representing tendered Shares (as defined below) are not immediately available or the certificates representing tendered Shares and all other required documents cannot be delivered to American Stock Transfer and Trust Company (the “Depositary”) prior to the expiration of the Offer or if the procedure for delivery by book-entry transfer cannot be completed prior to the expiration of the Offer. This instrument may be delivered or transmitted by facsimile transmission or mailed to the Depositary. See Section 3—“Procedures for Accepting the Offer and Tendering Shares” of the Offer to Purchase (as defined below).

The Depositary for the Offer is:

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By Mail:   By Facsimile Transmission:   By Hand or Courier:

American Stock Transfer &

Trust Company, LLC

Operations Center

Attn: Reorganization Department

P.O. Box 2042

New York, New York 10272-2042

  (718) 234 - 5001  

American Stock Transfer &

Trust Company, LLC

Operations Center

Attn: Reorganization Department

6201 15th Avenue

Brooklyn, New York 11219

For assistance call (877) 248 - 6417 or (718) 921 - 8317

DELIVERY OF THIS NOTICE OF GUARANTEED DELIVERY TO AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE OR TRANSMISSION OF INSTRUCTIONS VIA FACSIMILE TO A NUMBER OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A VALID DELIVERY TO THE DEPOSITARY.


THIS FORM IS NOT TO BE USED TO GUARANTEE SIGNATURES. IF A SIGNATURE ON A LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL IS REQUIRED TO BE GUARANTEED BY AN “ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION” UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL, SUCH SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MUST APPEAR IN THE APPLICABLE SPACE PROVIDED IN THE SIGNATURE BOX IN THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

THE GUARANTEE ON THE NEXT PAGE MUST BE COMPLETED.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned hereby tender(s) to Sheffield Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP AG, a stock corporation organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offer to purchase, dated May 26, 2010 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Offer to Purchase”), and in the related letter of transmittal (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Letter of Transmittal,” and together with the Offer to Purchase, the “Offer”), receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the number of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Sybase Common Stock”), including the associated rights to purchase shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock issued pursuant to the Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2002, as amended, by and between Sybase, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Sybase”), and American Stock Transfer and Trust Company (together with the Sybase Common Stock, the “Shares”), of Sybase, indicated below pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedure set forth in Section 3—“Procedures for Accepting the Offer and Tendering Shares” of the Offer to Purchase.

 

 

  

 

Name(s) of Record Holder(s)

 

 

  

Number of Shares

 

 

 

 

   Certificate Nos. (if available)

Address(es)

 

 

  

Zip Code

 

 

 

 

 

  

Indicate account number at Book-Entry Transfer

Facility if Shares will be tendered by book-entry transfer:

 

 

(Area Code) Telephone No.   

Account Number

 

X                                                                                                           

   Dated:                                 , 2010                                    

X                                                                                                           

   Dated:                                 , 2010                                    
Signatures(s) of Record Holder(s)   

 

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GUARANTEE

(NOT TO BE USED FOR SIGNATURE GUARANTEE)

The undersigned, a bank, broker, dealer, credit union, savings association or other entity that is a member in good standing of the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or any other “eligible guarantor institution,” as defined in Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (each, an “Eligible Institution”), hereby guarantees the delivery to the Depositary, at one of its addresses set forth above, of the certificates evidencing all Shares tendered by this Notice of Guaranteed Delivery in proper form for transfer, or confirmation of the book-entry transfer of Shares into the Depositary’s account at The Depository Trust Company, in either case, together with delivery of a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal (or a facsimile of the Letter of Transmittal) with any required signature guarantee, or an Agent’s Message (as defined in the Letter of Transmittal), and any other documents required by the Letter of Transmittal, within three New York Stock Exchange trading days after the date of execution of this Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

The Eligible Institution that completes this form must communicate the guarantee to the Depositary and must deliver the Letter of Transmittal and certificates representing tendered Shares to the Depositary within the time period indicated herein. Failure to do so may result in financial loss to such Eligible Institution.

 

 

  

X

Names of Firm

 

  

Authorized Signature

 

Address(es)

 

  

Name (Please Print)

 

Zip Code

 

  

Title

 

(Area Code) Telephone No.    Dated:                                 , 2010                                    

NOTE: DO NOT SEND CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING TENDERED SHARES WITH THIS NOTICE. CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING TENDERED SHARES SHOULD BE SENT WITH YOUR LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

 

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