The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - February 2006 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of Contents:
1) SUG-TX Meeting
Highlights
2) Next SUG-TX Meeting – February 28,
2006
3) Sybase Wins Two MobileTrax 2006 Mobility
Awards
4) PowerBuilder Worldwide
Survey
5) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6) Sybase Events
7) Sybase Training Schedule (Feb -
May)
1) SUG-TX Meeting
Highlights
Jeff Wayt of IOBar, Inc., presented
on two topics: Date Intervals- Strategies for Recurring Events implemented in
PowerBuilder, and Email Empowering Your PowerBuilder Application. Jeff has
created a set of PowerBuilder PFC extensions that provide Outlook-like recurring
date interval functionality. He handed out some diskettes with the PB
source for those in attendance. Jeff also discussed the various approaches
to mail-enabling PowerBuilder applications, including SMTP agents, Mail client
remote invocation, and a variety of other approaches. Jeff's presentations
were well received.
2) Next SUG-TX Meeting – February 28,
2006
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, February 28th. Don Clayton,
SUG-TX President, has been traveling all over the country helping enterprises
adopt either PowerDesigner or QDesigner, Quest Software's version of
PowerDesigner. PowerDesigner/QDesigner is the current leader of the
Gartner Group's "Magic Quadrant" for enterprise design tools. The Gartner
Group Magic Quadrant measures a product's thought leadership and the owner's
ability to execute their vision. PowerDesigner is also the current market
leader in enterprise-class data and object design tools. The organizations
Don has visited have been adopting PowerDesigner at the enterprise level to
replace a wide variety of different design products or to reduce the number of
products in use.
How PowerDesigner is used by an
organization depends on a number of factors. Don will begin with an
overview of Model-Driven Architecture and facilitate a discussion of how various
different technical architectures leverage the features of PowerDesigner.
He will then demonstrate some of the newest features of PowerDesigner, and
discuss the common drivers behind the current wave of adoption, including the
PowerDesigner enterprise repository, MetaWorks. He will close with a
series of case studies culled from the large number of PowerDesigner customers
he has seen in the last year.
Agenda:
4:00pm - 4:30pm Introduction, Welcome,
Q&A
4:30pm - 6:15pm PowerDesigner: Overview and
New Features
6:15pm - 6:30pm Wrap Up
6:30pm -
Post meeting discussions at Champps Americana (at the Uptown location)
The meetings are held at
HAL-PC,
3) Sybase Wins Two MobileTrax 2006
Mobility Awards
DUBLIN, Calif. —
February 6, 2006 — Sybase, Inc.
(NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software,
today announced that it has been awarded two MobileTrax 2006 Mobility Awards.
This is the second consecutive year that Sybase has won in the “Software” and
“Mergers and Acquisition” categories. The AvantGo mobile Internet service was
selected as the winner for its new direct way of providing automated delivery of
content to wireless devices, while Sybase’s acquisition of Extended Systems was
chosen as one of the best mergers and acquisitions in 2005, making the company a
significant player in wireless email.
The 2006 Mobility
Awards honor the best and the finest mobile computing and wireless data
communications products and services announced in 2005. “Sybase iAnywhere
continues to be the leader with its mobile database and middleware,” said J.
Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., Chief Analyst with MobileTrax LLC. “The rich product
portfolio has now been enhanced with the strategic acquisition of Extended
Systems and the integration of the OneBridge solution for wireless email and
mobile device management. This allows Sybase to become a viable candidate for
integrated email in the enterprise.”
For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1039250.
4) PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey
Let's
learn more about the worldwide use of PB in 2006!
*
What is the average size of a PowerBuilder project?
*
What type of application is currently developed with PB?
*
Which other tools are used along with PB?
*
What are the expectations of PowerBuilder users?
Every
year, Novalys gathers all of these questions in a survey. Answer and give them your
opinion!
http://www.visual-expert.net/survey/survey.php?TEMPL=survey_pb_2006_us.htm
All
the respondants will receive the answers.
5) Houston User Group for Sun
(HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
6) Sybase
Events
a)
Webcast – ASE 15: Performance Under Pressure
Adaptive
Server Enterprise 15 is a powerful data management platform that provides
real-time services for mission-critical, transaction-intensive applications. It
delivers an operational advantage by lowering costs and reducing risks, while
meeting the increasing demands of large databases and high transaction
volumes.
Date: Tuesday, February 28,
2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/502FE5?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
b) Webcast – Sybase
IQ: Better Analytics. Better Business
Sybase
IQ is a highly scalable relational database optimized for unsurpassed query
performance in business intelligence and large data warehouses. It combines
extraordinary speed and agility with low total cost of ownership to harness the
value of operational data and deliver dramatically faster results for
mission-critical business intelligence, analysis and
reporting.
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/64A167?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
c) Webcast - Avaki EII: Simplifying complex
data integration
Avaki
Enterprise Information Integration software provides a flexible, scalable and
efficient way to access, integrate and deliver disparate data to enterprise
applications. By creating a single data services layer with standardized access
to multiple data sources, including structured and unstructured data, it
eliminates the complexity of linking data with
applications.
Date: Tuesday, March 14,
2006
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
CDT
Register at http://response.sybase.com/219483?elqpurlpage=64&salesperson=CEC.
d) Conference – TechWave
2006
Call
for Papers Now Open!
Come to TechWave for
Free!
Sybase
TechWave 2006 is seeking applications from those interested in presenting a
topic at this year’s conference. Selected topic speakers will earn a
complimentary conference pass.
To
learn more about submitting an application click here.
The
Annual User Conference has something for everyone in the Sybase
family.
- Keynotes
- Education
and Training
- Networking
- Partner
Exhibition
- Technical
Support
- And
More
Check
out highlights from last year’s conference to see
why attendees return to TechWave year after year.
TechWave,
Sybase’s largest annual technical training conference, is the place to meet the
experts, hear first hand what’s new, and network with thousands of industry
professionals like you. Start planning today!
Watch http://www.sybase.com/techwave for
more details.
7) Sybase
Training Schedule (Feb - May)
27
Feb 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
13
Mar 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
15
27 Mar 2006 5 days Fast Track to
PowerBuilder
27 Mar 2006 3 days Reporting with Infomaker
10.0
03 Apr 2006 2 days Advanced PowerBuilder 8.0
Controls
03 Apr 2006 5 days Advanced Client/Server Development
Techniques using
PowerBuilder
03 Apr 2006 2 days Powering Up to ASE
15.0
05 Apr 2006 3 days Mastering the DataWindow Object in
PowerBuilder 9.0
10 Apr 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15.0
17 Apr 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
24 Apr 2006 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL: Advanced Tips
and Techniques
08 May 2006 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
15 May 2006 5 days Performance and Tuning for PowerBuilder 10: Advanced
Tips
and Techniques
15
May 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
15
Please verify class availability
with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
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