The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - August 2006 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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1) SUG-TX Meeting
Highlights
2) Next SUG-TX Meeting –
August 22, 2006
3)
4)
5)
6) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
7)
8)
1) SUG-TX Meeting
Highlights
SUG-TX had the pleasure of
welcoming Dave Fish, Sybase Senior Technical Evangelist, to our meeting to
present PowerBuilder 10.5 and PowerBuilder 11, which will be the first version
of PowerBuilder to compile to Microsoft .NET. Dave explained and demonstrated the new
features of PowerBuilder 10.5 including enhanced menus and toolbars, new RTE
control, TreeView DataWindow, AutoSize Height for All DataWindow Bands, new
Group Header control features, DropDownCalendar/DatePicker Control, Web Services
Enhancements, print preview enhancements, and database tracing
enhancements.
Dave also presented an exciting
roadmap to .NET. All PowerBuilder
system classes have been remapped from the Windows API to their .NET
equivalents. Thus all classes will
inherit either from the .NET system namespace or from a Sybase .NET
namespace. PowerBuilder 11 will
compile to MSIL, and be deployable as a .NET assembly into the .NET runtime
cache. This promises to be an
exciting year for PowerBuilder and we appreciate Dave’s insight into
PowerBuilder’s .NET future.
2)
Next SUG-TX Meeting –
August 22, 2006
The
Agenda:
4:00pm - 4:15pm Introduction, Welcome,
Q&A
4:15pm - 5:45pm TechWave Review
5:45pm – 6:00pm Wrap Up
6:30pm -
Post meeting discussions at Champps Americana (at the Uptown location)
The meetings are held at
HAL-PC,
3)
For the 2006 second
quarter, total license revenue increased 22% to $83.1 million from $67.9 million
in the second quarter of 2005.Total revenue for the 2006 second quarter
increased 5% to $215.6 million from $204.4 million for the second quarter of
2005.
Operating income
calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
for the second quarter of 2006 increased 15% to $32.4 million, compared with
GAAP operating income of $28.1 million for the year-ago quarter. The GAAP
results for the 2006 second quarter include the impact of $3.3 million
associated with implementation of FAS 123R.
GAAP net income for
the 2006 second quarter increased 66% to $26.3 million, or GAAP EPS of $0.29,
compared with GAAP net income of $15.9 million, or GAAP EPS of $0.17 for the
2005 second quarter.
Pro forma operating
income increased 22% to $41.8 million, compared with pro forma operating income
of $34.3 million in the second quarter of 2005. Pro forma net income for the
second quarter increased 31% to $32.8 million, or earnings per diluted share of
$0.36. This compares with pro forma net income of $25.0 million, or earnings per
diluted share of $0.27, for the 2005 second quarter.
Pro forma amounts
exclude amortization of certain expenses including certain purchased
intangibles, stock-based compensation, and restructuring costs. Accompanying
this release is a reconciliation of pro forma and GAAP amounts for the 2006
second quarter.
“Our strong growth in
the quarter was driven by demand for our ASE 15 flagship data management
solution and its encryption and partitioning options, growth in data integration
solutions, plus solid performance in our mobile business,” said John Chen,
chairman, CEO, and president of
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1041672.
4)
Sybase and IBM Set
Transaction Processing Record for Linux
DUBLIN,
Calif. and ARMONK, N.Y., — July 11, 2006 —
“The new
configuration shows how IBM System p with Linux on POWER running
“The superior
performance of this configuration shows the quality of the technology created by
both IBM and
This new record beats
the previous 2-core HP/Itanium2 and Oracle 10g performance record for Linux by
58 percent. It also beats the previous 2-core HP/Opteron and Microsoft SQL
Server performance record and is less expensive by 23
percent.(2)
(1) Based on IBM TPC-C
results of 81,439 tpmC, 2.99 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 12/22/06 and
runs on a p5-520 Model 9131-520 running
(2) HP Integrity TPC-C
result of 51,506 tpmC, 1.81 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 09/29/04,
running on a Integrity rx2600 running Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3. HP ProLiant DL385 G1 2.8 GHz/2P result of
76,214 tpmC, 3.91 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 11/08/05, running on
Microsoft SQL Server running on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. Source:
http://www.tpc.org
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1041449.
5)
Dublin
Calif., — June 26, 2006 —
“For the past five
years,
Information Anywhere
Suite supports a broad range of devices, connectivity modes and information
sources, and its unique Always Available architecture enables frontline workers
to access email, data and enterprise systems and applications anytime, anywhere,
from any device — with or without a “live” connection to the corporate network.
Unlike alternatives from other vendors, the elements of the suite
uniquely share a common technology infrastructure requiring fewer resources from
the communications network. Information Anywhere Suite is built on
market-leading
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1041260.
6) Houston User Group for Sun
(HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
7)
a) Webcast –
PowerDesigner
PowerDesigner is a
data-modeling and collaborative design tool for enterprises that need to build
or re-engineer applications quickly, cost-effectively and consistently. It works
with all modern RDBM systems and uniquely combines several modeling techniques
(UML, Business Process Modeling and market-leading data modeling) with leading
development environments (Microsoft .NET, Workspace, PowerBuilder, Java and
Eclipse) to bring business analysis and formal design processes to the
traditional software development lifecycle.
Date: Tuesday, August 8,
2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/C2A90F?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
b) Webcast – Unwired
Accelerator
Unwired Accelerator
is a secure and scalable mobile platform for quickly, easily and cost
effectively extending enterprise applications and data to a wide variety of
access devices, giving mobile workers an always-available, connected
experience.
Date: Tuesday, August 15,
2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/4CF346?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CE.
c) Conference - TechWave
2006
Will you be one of the 2,000 IT
professionals from around the world that takes advantage of the special
opportunity to attend TechWave 2006? At this exclusive event, participants will
be able to take part in informative seminars, technical education classes,
networking opportunities, a tradeshow and more.
Register now – the conference is almost
here!
Date: Sunday, August 6 – Thursday,
August 10, 2006
Location:
8) Sybase
Training Schedule (Aug - Oct)
14
Aug 2006 4 days Administering
21 Aug 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
28 Aug 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15
28 Aug 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
05 Sep 2006 4 days Mastering T-SQL Programming: Advanced
Tips and Techniques
11 Sep 2006 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
11 Sep 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
18
Sep 2006 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
25 Sep 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
02 Sep 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
09 Oct 2006 5 days Mastering Reuse: Enhancing Your
PowerBuilder Skills for
nTier Dev
16
Oct 2006 5 days Performance & Tuning for
PowerBuilder 10: Advanced
Tips
and Techniques
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