The Sybase Users' Group of Texas - September 2004 Newsletter (www.sugtx.org)
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Table of
Contents:
1) SUG-TX August 24th Meeting
Highlights
2) Upcoming September 28th SUG-TX Meeting –
“PowerBuilder to Web Strategies”
3) SUG-TX October 26th
Meeting
4)
Sybase Offers ASE Express
Edition for Linux - FREE*
5)
Houston User Group for
Sun (HUGS) Meeting
6) Sybase Events
7)
1) SUG-TX August 24th Meeting
Highlights
The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas
held their meeting on Tuesday, August 24th with a presentation on the activities
and announcements at TechWave 2004, recently held in
Don Clayton, President of SUG-TX,
welcomed everyone to the meeting.
The group went around the room and introduced themselves and held a
Q&A session. Don introduced
Cindy Bean, SUG-TX Secretary and ISUG (International Sybase User Group)
President, who discussed the activities that ISUG was involved in at
TechWave. Cindy presented the ISUG
Innovation and Achievement Awards during the opening keynote session. This year’s winners were Sethu
Meenakshisundaram of Sybase, and Bruce Armstrong of Integrated Data Services and
TeamSybase. A special award was
presented to Luc Van der Veurst for his ten years of service on the ISUG Board
of Directors. ISUG also held their
annual members meeting, staffed the ISUG booth in the exhibit hall, sponsored a
user group officer luncheon, and held the annual Enhancements/Ask the Expert
sessions. The ISUG Board of
Directors were very busy during the conference. Cindy also reviewed the database
announcements made during the conference, including the beta of ASE 15.0.
Next, Don reviewed the conference
announcements around the tools products.
PowerBuilder 10 was released just prior to TechWave and the keynotes
discussed the roadmap for PowerBuilder 11.
Don went on to describe Sybase’s current strategy for their tools,
including PowerBuilder, PowerDesigner, EAServer, and
Appeon.
Kathy Ridley, SUG-TX Treasurer and
ISUG Enhancements Director, discussed the latest on the ISUG enhancements
process and the new design partner program. Kathy showed the enhancements area on
the ISUG web site and how the process works. The design partner program allows Sybase
customers to participate up front with Sybase engineering during the design of
new functionality.
Check www.sybase.com/techwave2004 for
more information on TechWave 2004 and www.isug.com for more information on ISUG.
2) Upcoming September 28th SUG-TX
Meeting – “PowerBuilder to Web Strategies”
The Sybase Users' Group of Texas
will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, September 28th. The meetings are held at HAL-PC,
September’s topic will be
“PowerBuilder to Web Strategies”.
Updating PowerBuilder applications to facilitate Internet and Web
Services Architectures is a topic of great interest to developers. Various strategies and tactics are
available to PowerBuilder developers today to allow for the migration of
PowerBuilder code to web and web-based architectures. These strategies and tactics will be
discussed, along with real life examples of moving PowerBuilder applications to
the web.
Options include the “screen
scraping” approach of Appeon, partitioning an existing PowerBuilder application
while building a new HTML-based front end, using .PDF-centric approaches to web
DataWindow reporting, exposing PowerBuilder user objects as Web Services,
integrating Java-based frameworks such as Java/Struts with PowerBuilder, and
various PowerBuilder based frameworks for EAServer. The meeting will be moderated by Don
Clayton, and different SUGTX members will be discussing real-life examples from
the projects they have worked on.
Be sure not to miss this exciting round table discussion format, and
bring your war stories!
3) SUG-TX October 26th
Meeting
October’s topic will be “The Power
of PowerDesigner 10.0.”
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5) Houston User Group for Sun
(HUGS) Meeting
The Houston User Group for Sun
meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
6) Sybase
Events
a) Webcast Series - Easing
Application Integration with SQL Anywhere Studio
Join iAnywhere for a developer-focused webcast
series that will help you minimize the pain, time and cost of backend
integration. Choose one or more of the following webcasts:
Topic: Introduction
to QAnywhere Application Messaging
Date: Wednesday, September
22nd
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT, 11:00am – 12:00pm PDT
Topic: Building Database Powered
Web Services Applications
Date: Wednesday, October
6th
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT, 11:00am – 12:00pm PDT
Full details at http://crm.sybase.com/sybase/www/iAS/integration_intemail.jsp?tpl=ias.
b) Webcast - Mobility: Rollouts without
Rollbacks
iAnywhere will provide an
educational webcast discussing mobile and wireless application rollouts that
features Gartner. In this seminar
Gartner will discuss where enterprises have found positive ROI’s with
mobile/wireless technologies. The seminar will examine some key risks that have
delayed or prevented production rollouts. Gartner will also discuss the
best practices and proven technologies that are used to overcome these
challenges.
Date: Monday, September
27th
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Full details at http://www.xcellenet.com/Event.aspx?ID=55.
c) Webcast Series - ISUG Techcast
Series
Topic: Real-Life Solutions for
Migrating ASE Servers to Linux
Date: Tuesday, October 5th and Thursday,
October 7th, 2004
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
CDT
The monthly ISUG techcast series,
featuring popular topics from TechWave, starts again in October. Registration information is available at
http://crm.sybase.com/sybase/www/ESD/ISUGOCT2004Regis.jsp.
If you missed previous techcasts,
you can view the recording of past sessions or download the presentations at www.sybase.com/isugpresentations.
7)
Contact: 972-687-6400
Register: 1
800-8-SYBASE
04 Oct 2004 5 days Advanced Administration and
Troubleshooting for ASE
18 Oct 2004 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring
ASE
25 Oct 2004 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
01 Nov 2004 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server
Enterprise
08 Nov 2004 5 days Fast Track: Developing Robust Apps Using
PowerBuilder 9.0
15 Nov 2004 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE Query
Optimizer
15 Nov 2004 1 day Introduction to SQL
12.5
16 Nov 2004 4 days Advanced T-SQL: Tips and
Techniques
29 Nov 2004 5 days System and Database Administration:
ASE
06 Dec 2004 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
Contact: 713-782-6665
Register: www.hiltoncomputer.com
18 Oct 2004 5 days PB101: Basic Programming Using
PowerBuilder
Pre-register 5 days PB301: Advanced Programming Using
PowerBuilder
Send news & events to:
secretary@sugtx.org
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Sybase solutions to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas? The group is always looking for
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