DUBLIN, CA: Sybase has hired Leslie Nakajima to fill the new position of senior director of corporate communications. Nakajima will oversee all internal and external communications for the software company.

Once known for its database technology, Sybase has become more diversified, moving into wireless software and middleware, as well as enterprise and mobile infrastructure, integration, and application-development software.

"We have a number of focuses, and we want to develop more coherent and overarching messages. And we just want to be louder in ...