The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - November 2007 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of
Contents:
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – “Deep Dive” into
the Appeon 5.0 for PowerBuilder .NET Edition on November 27,
2007
2) SUG-TX December
3)
Sybase IQ Positioned in Leading
Independent Research Firm’s Visionaries Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database
Management Systems Magic Quadrant
4) Sybase Refreshes
PowerBuilder
5) Sybase 365 Pioneers Natural Language
Service for Mobile
Messaging
6) Sybase Events
7) Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
8) Sybase Training Schedule (Dec -
Mar)
1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – “Deep
Dive” into the Appeon 5.0 for PowerBuilder .NET Edition on November 27,
2007
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, November 27, 2007. The meeting
will be a follow up to the August meeting Appeon vs PowerBuilder
Bake-off. At that time we reviewed the steps to take a PowerBuilder
application to the web using PowerBuilder 11’s new features, versus using the
Appeon 5.0 .NET Edition. This follow up presentation will be a “Deep Dive”
into the Appeon 5.0 for PowerBuilder .NET Edition.
In this follow up presentation, the
underlying mechanics of the Appeon 5.0 .NET Edition product will be presented.
N-tier Web applications can be generated from existing PowerBuilder
application code using only standard PowerBuilder client/server programming.
End-users are presented with the familiar rich user interface that keeps
them highly productive.
Appeon for PowerBuilder .NET
Edition automatically replicates the client/server user interface with HTML
running in standard Microsoft Web browsers. The application business logic
including DataWindows and Embedded SQL is deployed to a .NET-based back-end. The
back-end can be readily integrated with other .NET or Web Services-based Web
applications. The standard n-tier Web architecture of Appeon for PowerBuilder
offers a high degree of scalability, availability, reliability, flexibility and
security.
In a related announcement, the
Sybase PowerBuilder Foundation Class (PFC) now works with Appeon 5.x. The
older Appeon-Compliant Framework (ACF) will no longer be used. Appeon
engineers worked on the Sybase open source PFC 10.5 project and released a PFC
version that works with Appeon without modification. To download the PFC
10.5 from Sybase website, please access http://pfc.codexchange.sybase.com
and login. Select Documents & files from the left menu, expand the
Release node, click into PB 10.5 folder and then download “2007.11.07
release”.
The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
2) SUG-TX December
SUG-TX will be holding its annual
holiday party instead of a meeting in December. Stayed tuned for
details!
3) Sybase IQ Positioned in Leading Independent Research Firm’s
Visionaries Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems Magic
Quadrant
DUBLIN,
CA — NOVEMBER 13, 2007 — Sybase,
Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile
software, today announced that Sybase® IQ analytics server has been positioned
by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the 2007 Data Warehouse DBMS
Magic Quadrant report authored by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer (October 10,
2007). The report evaluates vendors that supply database management system
software to power enterprise data warehousing.
“Our
customers tell us that Sybase IQ analytics server is the ideal solution for
analytics. Its innovative column-based architecture helps customers accelerate
the time to value for applications such as risk analysis and
analytics-as-a-service. We consider our position in the visionaries quadrant a
strong validation of the role this next-generation of data warehouse plays in
mission-critical analytics systems,” said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief Marketing
Officer, Sybase.
Sybase
IQ is a highly optimized analytics server, able to handle the most challenging
data warehousing requirements with ease—improving query times by as much as 100
times. Organizations with very large data warehouses benefit from the
significant reduction in hardware and energy costs due to Sybase IQ’s
compression capability. In a recent independent benchmark on a world’s record
one petabyte of raw data, Sybase IQ compressed data 85 percent resulting in a
“green” data environment with 90 percent less CO2 emissions over the data
warehouse’s life time. http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054011
Designed
from the start as an analytics server, Sybase IQ produces its incredible results
because of a unique architecture combining a column-based data structure with
patented indexing and a scalable grid. Compatible with standard hardware
platforms and leading analytics applications, Sybase IQ offers extraordinarily
high performance at a lower cost than a traditional row-oriented database.
Sybase IQ also reduces storage and server requirements compared to traditional
database management systems. Sybase IQ has been tested on trillions of rows of
data and is the TPC-H price-performance record holder in the 1 terabyte and 300
gigabyte categories.
See
the full story at: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054743.
4) Sybase Refreshes PowerBuilder
(from SD Times)
November
15, 2007 — Sybase has updated its
PowerBuilder 11 RAD tool and the DataWindow .NET component with new features
designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in the Microsoft software
ecosystem.
PowerBuilder
11.1 now works with Windows Vista, and offers database driver enhancements,
including new driver support for the Informix 10 database platform. It also
offers incremental compile for .NET Framework applications.
DataWindow
.NET 2.5 offers an updated style for data source presentation and now allows
developers to use a Web service as the source for a DataWindow. The so-called
“TreeView” presentation style has been extended to include Web-based
applications as well as desktop ones, and the DataWindow Designer is now
available as a set of Visual Studio 2005 plug-ins, so developers have one less
reason to leave the IDE. The standalone DataWindow Designer remains part of the
package, which in this release adds support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
“These
enhancements represent another milestone in Sybase’s .NET Framework strategy,”
said product manager Sue Dunnell, “which is to provide developers with an array
of tools that solve the challenge of developing business-critical applications,”
while making best use of existing skill sets.
PowerBuilder
11.1 and DataWindows .NET 2.5 will both be available on Nov. 15, and are sold
separately. Updates to PowerBuilder begin at US$1,495 and new licenses are
$2,995; DataWindow .NET is available for $645.
See the full story
at: http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071115-01.html.
5) Sybase 365 Pioneers Natural
Language Service for
Macau,
Mobile Asia Congress — November 12, 2007 — Sybase
365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), the global leader in messaging
interoperability and mobile content delivery, today announced the availability
of Answers 365™, a unique “natural language” service enabling SMS communication
between consumers and mobile service providers without the need for complex
keywords and multi-level, menu-driven applications. Answers 365 makes
mobile services intuitive and easy-to-use, enabling even first-time mobile users
to request information and services using their own words.
“Answers
365 is the next-generation user interface for mobile messaging. It makes
mobile services accessible to users in the same way that graphical user
interface made computers widely accessible during the rise of the PC,” said
Marty Beard, president, Sybase 365. “Consumer adoption is always dependent
on making a technology or service user-friendly. Answers 365’s intuitive
interface and natural language capability will advance and improve user adoption
of a wide variety of mobile services.”
Answers
365 builds on the Sybase® iAnywhere® Answers Anywhere™ platform and combined
with the Sybase 365™ global messaging operator-grade network delivers a
significant value-add service that is unique to the mobile messaging
industry. Answers 365’s intuitive system is smart enough to understand
common misspellings, multi-part queries, slang, and synonyms, making it an
effective and efficient channel for communication. The result is
that mobile service providers can expect to see much higher adoption rates.
See the full story at: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054737.
6) Sybase
Events
Seminars,
Conferences, Webcasts, Tradeshows, Sports events — whichever way you want to get
information from
http://www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events
If you'd like to give
feedback on what types of events you think
7) Houston User Group for Sun
(HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
8) Sybase
Training Schedule (Dec - Mar)
03
Dec 2007 5 days Performance & Tuning: Configuring
ASE 15
10
Dec 2007 5 days Performance & Tuning for PowerBuilder 10:
Advanced Tips
and Techniques
17
Dec 2007 3 days Data Modeling with PowerDesigner
12
20
Dec 2007 2 days Business Process Modeling with
PowerDesigner 12
07
Jan 2008 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part
I
07
Jan 2008 5 days Performance & Tuning:
ASE Query Optimizer
14
Jan 2008 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder, Part
II
14
Jan 2008 1 day Introduction to
SQL
14
Jan 2008 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
21
Jan 2008 5 days System & Database Administration:
ASE
28 Jan 2008 3 days Moving to PowerBuilder
11
28 Jan 2008 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
04 Feb 2008 5 days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming:
Advances Tips and
Techniques
11 Feb 2008 5 days Performance & Tuning: Configuring
ASE 15
03
Mar 2008 2 days Data Modeling with PowerDesigner
12
03
Mar 2008 5 days Advanced Administration and
Troubleshooting for ASE
06
Mar 2008 2 days Business Process Modeling with
PowerDesigner 12
10
Mar 2008 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
17
Mar 2008 5 days System & Database Administration:
ASE
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