SUG-TX October 2005 Newsletter

The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - October 2005 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)

Table of Contents:

1) Next SUG-TX Meeting – October 25th

2) SUG-TX ASE 15 Launch – November 8th

3) Sybase Reports 2005 Third Quarter Results, Exceeding First Call EPS Consensus Estimates

4) iAnywhere Launches Beta Of AvantGo For RSS

5) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

6) Sybase Events

7) Sybase Training Schedule (Oct - Jan)

1) Next SUG-TX Meeting - October 25th

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, October 25th. Come to the October SUG-TX meeting for a wrap up of the TechWave 2005 Conference. SUG-TX board members Don Clayton, Kathy Ridley, Cindy Bean, and Cynthia Gill attended TechWave and will review the information presented Las Vegas, including ISUG’s new My.ISUG.com members web site, products futures and directions. Come hear about the exciting news that Sybase shared with attendees.

Agenda:

   4:00pm - 4:30pm     Introduction/Welcome
   4:30pm - 5:30pm     TechWave 2005 Review
   5:30pm - 6:00pm     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), from 4:00pm to 6:30pm. Members frequently continue discussions at Champps Sports Bar after the meeting while waiting for traffic to subside.

2) SUG-TX ASE 15 Launch – November 8^th!

Mark your calendars and join SUG-TX and Sybase for a Houston ASE 15 Launch. Meet us at Jillian’s on November 8^th for a celebration of ASE 15. Learn about the new release from Jeff Tallman, an evangelist for Sybase specializing on ASE, Replication Server, and Sybase IQ. Jeff will cover Query optimization enhancements, I/O performance enhancements, and system administration tools enhancements. More details will be sent soon. Stayed tuned.

3) Sybase Reports 2005 Third Quarter Results, Exceeding First Call EPS Consensus Estimates

DUBLIN, Calif. – October 20, 2005 – Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and wireless software, today reported financial results for the 2005 third quarter ended September 30, 2005. Pro forma net income for the third quarter reached $30.1 million, or earnings of $0.33 per share on a diluted basis (EPS). This compares with pro forma net income of $27.4 million, or EPS of $0.29 for the 2004 third quarter.

GAAP net income for the 2005 third quarter was $28.0 million, or EPS of $0.30. This compares with GAAP net income of $17.8 million, or EPS of $0.19 for the third quarter of 2004.

Pro forma amounts exclude amortization of certain expenses including certain purchased intangibles, unearned stock-based compensation, and restructuring costs. Accompanying this release is a reconciliation of pro forma and GAAP amounts for the 2005 third quarter.

Total revenues for the third quarter were $199.3 million compared with $198.7 million for the third quarter of 2004. License revenues were $69.7 million for the 2005 third quarter compared with $70.4 million for the same quarter a year ago.

The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1037975.

4) iAnywhere Launches Beta Of AvantGo For RSS

Dublin, CA - October 18, 2005 - iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), today announced the beta release of new RSS (Really Simple Syndication) features for its popular AvantGo® mobile Internet service. The new features give users greater ease-of-use for viewing mobile RSS subscriptions online or offline, and expands the content available through AvantGo by including the millions of RSS feeds offered by bloggers and major media. AvantGo users can now add any RSS feed to their account, without installing additional software, and then synchronize using a wireless or desktop Internet connection to receive the feed items in a format optimized for their device.

"AvantGo has a trendsetting audience and RSS support has been one of our top user requests," said Jon Asmussen, Product Manager, AvantGo at iAnywhere. "Today we're responding by delivering a simple, free service for reading RSS feeds on a smartphone or PDA."

The full story is available at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1037972.

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 November 8th. To be added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer.

6) Sybase Events

a) Webcast - Real-time Business Intelligence Evolution in Information Access

During this one-hour Web seminar you will learn…

· Why traditional business intelligence systems are under pressure to perform in real time.

· Factors to consider and requirements to meet when designing a real-time data warehouse.

· How real-time processing can deliver the right-time information, alerts and reports to empower the business.

· How a unified layer of shared data can speed business processes, eliminate stale information and enhance IT service levels.

Date: Thursday, October 25, 2005

Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT

b) Webcast – ISUG Techcast Series

Join Glenn Klausner, Avaki EII Senior Product Specialist, and Bill Jacobs, Sybase Senior Product Evangelist, as they discuss how you can access and integrate multiple, federated data sources without replicating data. Benefits of Avaki EII include:

- Single virtual data source

- Integrated views of data

- Framework leverages other tools

- Distributed "Grid" Architecture

Topic: Avaki EII "plus" for access & integrationof distributed data across the enterprise

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2005

Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm CDT

7) Sybase Training Schedule (Oct - Jan)

Sybase Dallas Learning Center

14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505

Dallas, Texas 75240

Contact: 972-687-6400

31 Oct 2005 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE

07 Nov 2005 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips and

Techniques

14 Nov 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query Optimizer

05 Dec 2005 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder

12 Dec 2005 3 days Reporting with InfoMaker 9.0

12 Dec 2005 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE

19 Dec 2005 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise

19 Dec 2005 4 days Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting for ASE

09 Jan 2006 5 days Advanced Client/Server Development Techniques Using

PowerBuilder

09 Jan 2006 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE 15

16 Jan 2006 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server Administration

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

Pre-register 5 days PB101: Basic Programming Using PowerBuilder

Pre-register 5 days PB301: Advanced Programming Using PowerBuilder

07 Nov 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional Preparation I

10 Nov 2005 2 days PMPII: Project Management Professional Preparation II

28 Nov 2005 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an Enterprise

Project Management Solution

09 Jan 2006 5 days 2732: Planning, Deploying, & Managing an Enterprise

Project Management Solution

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