Date Intervals are useful, coded expressions of calendar events that can be stored in a database and used in date math, similar to that seen in MS Outlook's Calendar. The strategy is database and language neutral, although there will be samples of PowerBuilder PFC-based source code available.

The Email topic will show how to implement the Code Exchange version of PBNI SMTP to make & send emails in a PowerBuilder application without using Outlook/MAPI.  A lively discussion of how to make management more robust will ensue.

SUG-TX will also be holding officer elections for 2006.  If you're interested or have any questions, please contact Don Clayton at dclayton@intertech.us.

Agenda:

  4:00pm - 4:30pm    Introduction, Welcome, Q&A, Officer Elections

  4:30pm - 6:15pm    Jeff Wayt Presentation

  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, 4543 Post Oak Place, Suite 200, Houston, TX  77027 (map).  Members frequently continue discussions at Champps Sports Bar after the meeting while waiting for traffic to subside.

2)  Sybase iAnywhere Named Number One in Worldwide Mobile Device Management Enterprise Software Market for Fourth Consecutive Year

DUBLIN, Calif. — JANUARY 5, 2006 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading global enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, today announced that in a recent report, Worldwide Mobile Device Management Enterprise 2004 Vendor Shares (IDC #34666, December 2005), leading IT market research advisory firm IDC recognized Sybase and its iAnywhere subsidiary as the leader in mobile device management enterprise software with higher revenues and market share in a top 10 list that makes up more than three-fourths of the market and is dominated by large systems management vendors.

“2005 marks a year of significant advancement and growth for the MDM market through mergers, acquisitions and new market entrants,” said Stephen Drake, program director, Mobile Software at IDC. “It’s important because more and more organizations are implementing mobile solutions and are seeking to adopt MDM offerings at the point of deployment.”

For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1038819.

3) iAnywhere Joins Ultrawideband Standards Organizations

LAS VEGAS - 2006 International CES - (January 5, 2006) - iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), today announced that it has joined the UWB Forum and WiMedia Alliance Ultrawideband standards bodies. Ultrawideband (UWB) is a burgeoning wireless communication technology that enables high-bandwidth, short-range wireless communications. By joining the respective UWB standards bodies, iAnywhere will help to define standards that merge the benefits of the high data rate transfer capabilities of UWB with the maturity of the Bluetooth® software protocol and application profiles. In addition, iAnywhere plans support for UWB within its mobile device solutions, which will provide device manufacturers and chip set providers with the building blocks required to bring both Bluetooth and UWB-enabled products to market quickly and easily.

"Our UWB involvement is a natural product progression for iAnywhere," stated Nathan Pendleton, area vice president of Mobile Device Solutions at iAnywhere. "We have built a solid foundation for Bluetooth with major device manufacturers and we are excited to offer these customers additional short-range wireless technologies in the near future."

For the full story, go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1038817.

4)  Get Ahead of the Technology Curve and Ride the Wave

By Dr Raj Nathan, senior vice president, Sybase Information Technology Solutions Group

Data keeps growing and becoming more valuable.  Companies must account for exploding data and how they are going to store it so that it is readily available. To do this, it is necessary to be ahead of the technology curve and ride the wave.

Getting ahead of the curve means devising a new approach to data management, one that includes unwiring data management infrastructure from legacy architectures, extending the data wirelessly and lowering the cost of doing that, and everything else as well. The assumption is that with enterprise data exploding, it obviously matters now and even more so in the future.

Read the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1038712.

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 14th.  To be added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer.

6) Sybase Events

a) Webcast - Operational Intelligence - Achieving the Speed of Business

During this one-hour web seminar you will learn how to…

·    Understand why business information users have different needs and how to satisfy them.

·    Rethink the BI infrastructure to deliver more data to more users.

·    Align data assets with business processes to achieve rapid insight, make timely decisions and improve performance management.

·    Prepare your organization to address emerging trends and business requirements that demand a single version of truth across the organization.

   Date:   Tuesday, January 31, 2006

   Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT

Register at http://response.sybase.com/forms/NAO_NA_06_JAN_WBCST_OperationalBI?mc=CEC.

b) Webcast - Is Your Disaster Recovery "Insurance" Paying Off?

Mirror Activator enhances traditional storage replication solutions that deliver disaster recovery or business continuity for database applications. Its unique approach delivers the best elements of both storage and transaction replication.

If the disaster recovery or business continuity system for your application uses a Sybase or Oracle database, Mirror Activator is made for you!

   Date:   Tuesday, February 7, 2006

   Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT

Register at http://response.sybase.com/forms/OEMQ1Webinar.

c) Conference – TechWave 2006

Save the Date!  Sybase TechWave 2006 will be held in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, August 6-10, 2006

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 (Jan - Apr)

     Sybase Dallas Learning Center

     14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505

     Dallas, Texas 75240

     Contact:  972-687-6400

     Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE

30 Jan 2006  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder

06 Feb 2006  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

13 Feb 2006  5 days  Performance and Tuning for PowerBuilder 10: Advanced Tips

                      and Techniques

13 Feb 2006  4 days  Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips &

                      Techniques

27 Feb 2006  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

06 Mar 2006  5 days  Performance and Tuning: ASE Query Optimizer

13 Mar 2006  5 days  System and Database Administration: ASE 15

27 Mar 2006  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder

03 Apr 2006  2 days  Advanced PowerBuilder 8.0 Controls

03 Apr 2006  5 days  Advanced Client/Server Development Techniques using

                      PowerBuilder

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

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

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