The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - November 2004 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)


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Table of Contents:

 

 1)  SUG-TX October 26th Meeting Highlights

 2)  Upcoming November 23rd SUG-TX Meeting

 3)  Sybase Wins Prestigious Golden Software Award

 4)  AVANTGO to Surpass One Billionth Subscriber Sync Milestone

 5)  Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

 6)  Sybase Events

 7)  Sybase Training Schedule (Nov - Feb)

 

 

1) SUG-TX October 26th Meeting Highlights

 

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas held their meeting on Tuesday, October 26th with a presentation on PowerDesigner 10.0.  Matt Creason gave an excellent presentation on the product, including a discussion of its leading market share position and domination of the Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant for design tools in 2004. 

 

Matt’s talk was relevant to DBAs, application developers and enterprise architects.  He discussed the PowerDesigner integrated modeling environment, trends in integrated modeling, and the ways of that different users are able to effectively use PowerDesigner based upon their backgrounds, technical environment, and location in the systems development lifecycle.

 

Matt demonstrated conceptual, physical, and object oriented modeling, as well as several advanced topics, including the integration of the Eclipse IDE with PowerDesigner, Visual BASIC scripting, and advanced code database generation techniques.  Matt also demonstrated the round trip engineering of PowerBuilder applications to and from UML.

 

Matt’s presentation was refreshing, because the entire presentation was done live in the PowerDesigner product, and a wealth of information was presented.  There were also a number of PowerDesigner tee shirts given out to audience participants.

 

 

2) Upcoming November 23rd SUG-TX Meeting

 

The Sybase Users' Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, November 23rd.  The meetings are held at HAL-PC, 4543 Post Oak Place, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77027 (map), from 4:00pm to 6:30pm.  Members frequently continue discussions at Champps Sports Bar after the meeting while waiting for traffic to subside.

 

Abstract

Although the Sybase ASE database is still a critical foundation product for Sybase, there are also a number of other very strong solution initiatives that Sybase provides.  These would include the wide range of products, including Dynamic Archiving, Mirror Activator, Dynamic Operational Data Store, and Real Time Data Services.  Bill will discuss Dynamic Archiving, and then drill down on the other areas as well as time permits.

 

The final topic will be on the Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP).  Sybase EP is an open and scalable portal framework that provides an intuitive, secure and personalized environment for end-users; rapid development and deployment tools for developers; and an easy-to-use console for administrators.  Don’t miss these exciting presentations!


About the Speaker
Bill Wing, BSBA, is a Pricipal Systems Consultant with the Sybase, Inc. Enterprise Solutions Division in Houston, Texas.  Mr. Wing has been with Sybase for 12 years, and has over 38 years of data processing experience, ranging from application development, system integration, database administration, and data administration (Shell Oil), and 12 years of software solutions experience (Sybase).  Bill supports solution sales to the larger customers in the Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana area.

 

 

3) Sybase Wins Prestigious Golden Software Award

 

HONG KONG – November 15, 2004 - Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY) a leading enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, today announced that its enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS) Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.2 (ASE) received the Golden Software Award in the database sector. This prestigious award recognizes Sybase’s contribution to information technology industry in China over the past twenty years, and was based on results from a nationwide survey sponsored by the China Software Association and the China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID). Sybase was ranked the leader in the RDBMS sector, followed by Oracle and IBM.

 

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail/1,6904,1033430,00.html

 

 

4) AVANTGO to Surpass One Billionth Subscriber Sync Milestone

 

AD: TECH 04, New York, NY – November 8, 2004 - iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), today announced that its AvantGo® mobile Internet service will reach one billion subscriber syncs in the month of November. In celebration of this milestone and the service’s five-year anniversary, which highlights the growing momentum of the free service, AvantGo will feature a contest for subscribers and launch a special advertising program for channel partners.

 

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail/1,6904,1033309,00.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 December 14th.  To be added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer.

 

 

6) Sybase Events

 

a) Webcast Series - ISUG Techcast Series

 

   Topic: Combining Sybase Mirror Activator and EMC SRDF for Better Disaster Recovery Solutions

   Date:  Tuesday, December 7th and Thursday, December 9th, 2004

   Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT

 

The monthly ISUG techcast series, featuring popular topics from TechWave, continues in December.  Registration information is available at http://www.sybase.com/isugtechcasts. 

 

If you missed previous techcasts, you can view the recording of past sessions or download the presentations at http://www.sybase.com/isugpresentations.

 

b) Conference – TechWave 2005

 

It’s official.  TechWave 2005 will be held at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The dates are August 21st through August 25th, 2005.  Hotel rates are $140 plus tax.  Plan your budget now and mark your calendars.

 

 

7) Sybase Training Schedule (Nov - Feb)

 

     Sybase Dallas Learning Center

     14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505

     Dallas, Texas 75240

     Contact:  972-687-6400

     Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE

             

29 Nov 2004  5 days  System and Database Administration: ASE

06 Dec 2004  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder 10

13 Dec 2004  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

03 Jan 2005  5 days  Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE

10 Jan 2005  1 day   Introduction to SQL 12.5

11 Jan 2005  4 days  Advanced T-SQL: Tips and Techniques

24 Jan 2005  5 days  Fast Track to Replication Server Administration

24 Jan 2005  2 days  Logical Database Design

26 Jan 2005  3 days  Physical Database Design

31 Jan 2005  5 days  Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

07 Feb 2005  5 days  System and Database Administration: ASE

14 Feb 2005  5 days  Fast Track to PowerBuilder 10

 

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

 

     Hilton Computer Strategies

     6001 Savoy, Suite 207

     Houston, Texas  77036

     Contact:  713-782-6665

     Register:  www.hiltoncomputer.com

            

17 Jan 2005  5 days  PB101: Basic Programming Using PowerBuilder

Pre-register 5 days  PB301: Advanced Programming Using PowerBuilder

 

 

Send news & events to: secretary@sugtx.org

 

 Do you have suggestions for our group?  Let us hear them.  We have new web site features that include member self-service functions and member feedback capabilities. 

 

Would you like to present your Sybase solutions to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas?  The group is always looking for compelling presentations for our monthly meetings.  Let us hear them! 

 

Please forward this newsletter to anyone interested in learning more about Sybase products.  To be added to or removed from the SUG-TX mailing list, send an email to secretary@sugtx.org.