The Sybase Users' Group of Texas January 2004 Newsletter
[Houston City Skyline]


Table of Contents:
 
 1) SUG-TX January 20th Meeting Highlights
 2) Next SUG-TX Meeting - February 24th - New Day and Time!
 3) Sybase Beats Fourth Quarter Revenue and Pro Forma EPS Estimates
 4) LinuxWorld Magazine and Open Source World Magazine Honor Sybase RDBMS
    with Reader's Choice and Editor's Choice Awards
 5) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
 6) Sybase Events
 7) Sybase Learning Center Schedule for Houston and Dallas (Feb - Apr)
 

1) SUG-TX January 20th Meeting Highlights
 
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas held their first meeting of 2004 on
Tuesday, January 20th.  SUG-TX President, Don Clayton, welcomed everyone
to the meeting.

The purpose of the meeting was to plan for 2004 and hold officer elections.
Officer elections were held and the new officers for 2004 are:

  President - Don Clayton, Intertech Consulting
  Vice President - Bernie Dy, MI Drilling
  Treasurer - Kathy Ridley, Adea Solutions
  Secretary - Cindy Bean, BMC Software

A discussion was held on possible meeting topics for 2004 and whether any
changes needed to be made to the meeting format.  The meetings will now
be held on the 4th Tuesday of the month, from 4:30pm - 6:30pm, still at
HAL-PC.  Sybase has some exciting products coming out this year so watch
for future meeting topics.
 

2) Next SUG-TX Meeting - February 24th - New Day and Time!
 
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday,
February 24th.  The meetings are changing to 4:30-6:30pm at HAL-PC; 4543
Post Oak Place, Suite 200. 

Agenda:

 4:30pm - 5:00pm   Introduction, Welcome, Sybase User Q&A

 5:00pm - 6:15pm   Presentation by Bradmark Technologies

 6:15pm - 6:30pm   Wrap Up/Giveaway


3) Sybase Beats Fourth Quarter Revenue and Pro Forma EPS Estimates
 
DUBLIN, Calif. -- January 27, 2004 -- Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading
enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, today announced
fourth quarter 2003 net income of $39.2 million on a pro forma basis, or
earnings per share of $0.39 on a diluted basis (EPS), exceeding First Call
consensus EPS estimates of $0.31. Net income for the same period
calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
(GAAP) was $37.7 million, or EPS of $0.38.

Pro forma net income for the full year 2003 was $105.8 million, or EPS of
$1.08, and GAAP net income for the same period was $87.2 million, or EPS
of $0.89.

Total revenues for the fourth quarter 2003 were $210.7 million compared to
fourth quarter 2002 revenues of $210.6 million. Total revenues for the
full year 2003 were $778.1 million compared to $829.9 million for 2002.

"With clear signs of economic stabilization in the fourth quarter, we
enter 2004 with renewed optimism about the future of IT spending," said
John Chen, chairman, CEO and president of Sybase, Inc. "The magnitude of
new customer wins in Q4, including business from customers who have not
purchased from us in recent years, signals a re-focused energy on
strategic IT investments. For example, our Unwired solutions subsidiary
recorded it's highest revenues in the past two years. Looking ahead, we
think Unwired solutions, the Linux database and the Asia Pacific region
will remain strong growth areas for Sybase."

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail/1,6904,1028111,00.html.
 

4) LinuxWorld Magazine and Open Source World Magazine Honor Sybase RDBMS
   with Reader's Choice and Editor's Choice Awards
 
DUBLIN, Calif., -- January 21, 2004 -- Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY) a leading
enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, today announced
that Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), the company's enterprise-class
relational database management system (RDBMS), is being honored this week
with Readers' Choice and Editor's Choice Awards by LinuxWorld Magazine and
Open Source World Magazine.

"Sybase is particularly proud of both the LinuxWorld Magazine and Open
Source World Magazine honors, as they represent the voice of real-world
users that have recognized Sybase as the best choice to help them fulfill
the promise of Linux," said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and
general manager, Sybase Infrastructure Platform Group. "Unlike other high-
profile vendors, Sybase on Linux delivers performance without compromise,
providing Unix-like scalability and performance on lower-cost platforms."

Sybase ASE won the 2003 LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Award for
"Best Linux Database," triumphing by a wide margin over offerings from
IBM, MySQL and Oracle. This award, in conjunction with over 84,500
downloads of ASE on Linux from www.sybase.com, is proof positive that
users worldwide are building their Linux applications on Sybase ASE and
finding that it delivers the performance, scalability and reliability that
the others do not.

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail/1,6904,1028042,00.html.
 

5) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
 
The Houston User Group for Sun meets on the second Tuesday of every month
at the Houston Sun office.  The next meeting is February 10th.  To be
added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer at Blummer@computer.org.
 

6) Sybase Events
 
a) Webcast - ISUG Techcast Series for Developers and DBAs

   Topic: EAServer -- Achieving Maximum Performance and Optimization
   Date: February 10th and 12th, 2004
   Time: 12:00pm CST
 
The monthly ISUG techcast series, featuring popular topics and issues for
Developers and DBAs, continues in February.  These techcasts provide a
live forum for peer-to-peer, user-to-user information exchange and
discussion.  Details for each techcast and registration information is
available at www.sybase.com/isugtechcast.  Past presentations are
available at www.sybase.com/isugpresentations.
 
b) Webcast - Optimize Your Synchronization with the Latest MobiLink Features
 
   Date: February 10th, 2004
   Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm CST

Version 9 of MobiLink includes some significant enhancements that further
extend the flexibility of this powerful synchronization technology. This
webcast provides further details on exciting new V9 features including
restartable downloads, the MobiLink ActiveX component, server-initiated
synchronization, and file-based downloads. In addition, there will be a
discussion on the specific enhancements to Adaptive Server.

Register at http://crm.sybase.com/sybase/www/iAS/sql_series.jsp
 
c) Webcast - Mobile Web Development Fundamentals

   Topic: 7 Design Principles For Taking Your Web Content Mobile
   Date: February 18th, 2004
   Time: 1:00pm CST

   Topic: Building Dynamic Data-Driven Mobile Web Applications
   Date: February 25th, 2004
   Time: 1:00pm CST

   Topic: Securely Managing Your Mobile Web Application Deployment
   Date: March 2nd, 2004
   Time: 1:00pm CST

Register at http://www.ianywhere.com/mobilewebseries or call 800-801-2069.

d) TechWave 2004 - Mark Your Calendars
 
   Date:  August 15th - 19th, 2004
   Where: Gaylord Palms Resort Hotels and Convention Center
          Orlando, FL
 
For more information and to sign up for the TechWave newsletter, visit
http://www.sybase.com/techwave2004.

Event information is available at www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events.
 

7) Sybase Learning Center Schedule for Dallas (Feb - Apr)
 
     Sybase Dallas Learning Center
     14800 Quorum, Suite 505
     Addison, TX 75001
     Contact:  972-687-6400
     Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE
            
23 Feb 2004 5 days  Fast Track: Developing Robust Apps Using
                     PowerBuilder 9.0
08 Mar 2004 5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise
15 Mar 2004 5 days  System and Database Administration: ASE
22 Mar 2004 5 days  PowerBuilder Masters Boot Camp
05 Apr 2004 5 days  Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
26 Apr 2004 2 days  Logical Database Design
28 Apr 2004 3 days  Physical Database Design

Please verify class availability with Sybase registration or
http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
 

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