The
Sybase Users' Group of Texas – July 2010 Newsletter
Table
of Contents:
1)
SUG-TX July 27th Meeting – Cancelled
2)
Join the SUG-TX LinkedIn Group
3)
Highlights: SUG-TX May 25th Meeting
4)
Future SUG-TX Meetings
5)
SAP Obtains European Commission Approval to Acquire Sybase,
Inc.
6)
Sybase Survey Finds Competitiveness and Need for Speed Blurring Lines Between
Front and Middle Office for Trading Community
7)
International Sybase User Group Events
8)
Sybase Events
9)
OpenSolaris / Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
10)
Sybase Training Schedule (Aug - Dec)
1) SUG-TX July
27th Meeting – Cancelled
The Sybase Users’
Group of Texas July meeting has been cancelled.
We will hold our
next meeting on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, at which time we will review the
announcements at TechWave 2010 and discuss issues important to both Developers
and DBAs.
2) Join the
SUG-TX LinkedIn Group
The Sybase Users’
Group of Texas has a group in LinkedIn. If you wish to join, submit a
request. You can find the group by searching for “Sybase Texas” in the
groups directory. Contact secretary@sugtx.org if you have any
questions.
3) Highlights:
SUG-TX May 25th Meeting
The Sybase Users’
Group of Texas held their May meeting on Tuesday, May 25, 2010. There was
a lively discussion of the recently announced acquisition of Sybase by SAP and
the near and long term implications for users of Sybase technology. The
second half of the meeting was a presentation and discussion of a migration of a
PFC application from PowerBuilder v11.5 to v12 .NET by Jeff Wayt, a follow up to
the recent "Developer Days Houston" event. Jeff Wayt showed attendees the
migration steps and explained what worked and what didn’t.
4) Future
SUG-TX Meetings
Mark your calendar
for future topics for SUG-TX Meetings:
·
August
24:
TechWave Wrap-Up
·
September
28:
Appeon 6.5
·
October
26:
TBD
·
November
23:
No Meeting – Thanksgiving week
·
December:
Holiday Party
Topics for future
meetings are subject to change based on speaker availability and
scheduling. Watch the newsletter for details for each meeting. A
meeting will not be held in November due to proximity to the Thanksgiving
holiday. December is the annual holiday party. SUG-TX usually meets
on the 4th Tuesday so add a recurring appointment on your calendar
and watch for future meeting announcements and newsletters for
details.
5) SAP Obtains
European Commission Approval to Acquire Sybase, Inc.
WALLDORF, Germany -
July 20, 2010 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has obtained approval
from the European Commission for the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. Approval
of the acquisition from the European Commission satisfied the final regulatory
condition to the cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of
Sybase by Sheffield Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP, which
is scheduled to expire at 9:00 p.m., New York City time, on Monday, July 26,
2010.
The tender offer is
being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, dated May 26, 2010, as amended, and
in connection with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 12, 2010, by and
among SAP America, Inc., Sheffield Acquisition Corp. and Sybase, which SAP and
Sybase announced on May 12, 2010.
For the full story,
go to http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press.epx?pressid=13623.
6) Sybase
Survey Finds Competitiveness and Need for Speed Blurring Lines Between Front and
Middle Office for Trading Community
Challenges of
Merging Front and Middle Office Outweighed by Business Advantages While Keeping
Trading Models Up to Date Remains a Major Burden
NEW YORK, N.Y. —
July 7, 2010 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in enterprise and
mobile software, today announced results of a survey showing that increasing
demands for competitiveness and the need for speed are altering the front lines
of trading, putting increasing pressure on algorithmic models and blurring the
lines between the front and middle office. The key findings, stemming from a
survey of attendees during last month’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference
2010 in New York, echo results from another Sybase® survey conducted at
TradeTech 2010, a major trading technology conference held in London last
April.
More than 100
respondents from the two conferences shed valuable light on the latest trends
shaping the capital markets industry. Merging front and middle office has
challenges, yet they are clearly outweighed by the business benefits. As the
lines continue to blur between front- and middle-office functions, six out of 10
respondents (60%) are seeing clear demand for a tick database to be closely
associated with their front-office trading strategies. In a closely related
finding, nearly half of respondents downplayed risk to the model creation and
execution process imposed by using separate environments for development and
production. Executives participating in the survey frequently pointed to
increasing efforts within their own businesses to bring these environments
closer together.
“When we polled
executives at SIFMA during the depth of the credit crisis in 2008, the majority
of respondents cited the ability to analyze execution risk in real-time as job
one and a crucial competitive differentiator,” said Sinan Baskan, Senior
Director of Business Development, Financial Services, Sybase. “We’re now seeing
the imperative of performance re-asserting itself within the context of front-
and middle-office consolidation.”
For the full story,
go to http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1080656.
7)
International Sybase User Group Events
The
International Sybase User Group (ISUG) sponsors events for Special Interests
Groups (SIGs), Virtual User Groups, and members. Sign up for ISUG
Membership for as little as $25 for a basic membership and get access to events
and online material. For more details, visit:
http://www.isug.com/common/JoinISUG.html
8) Sybase
Events
Seminars,
Conferences, Webcasts, Tradeshows, Sports events — whichever way you want to get
information from Sybase, they deliver! Check out future events
at:
http://www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events
If
you'd like to give feedback on what types of events you think Sybase should
offer please email them at events@sybase.com
9) OpenSolaris
/ Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting
The OpenSolaris /
Houston User Group for Sun meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the
Houston Sun office. The next meeting will be on
August 10th.
Web
Site: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/hugs
Subscribe to the mailing list: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-hugs
10) Sybase
Training Schedule (Aug - Dec)
Sybase Dallas Learning Center
14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505
Dallas, Texas 75240
Contact: 972-687-6400
Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE
Aug
02, 2010 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise
Aug
09, 2010 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE 15.0 Query
Optimization
Aug
16, 2010 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part II
Aug
30, 2010 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
Sep
08, 2010 3 days C# for the PowerBuilder Developer
Sep
13, 2010 5 days Replication Server 15 Masters
Sep
20, 2010 4 days Data Modeling with PowerDesigner 15
Oct
05, 2010 4 days Moving to PowerBuilder 11.5
Oct
11, 2010 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part I
Oct
18, 2010 5 days Performance and Tuning: Configuring ASE
15
Oct
25, 2010 5 days Fast Track to Replication Server
Administration
Nov
01, 2010 5 days Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise
Nov
01, 2010 5 days ASE 15 Migration for DBA's
Nov
08, 2010 3 days Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner
15
Nov
15, 2010 4 days Mastering Transact-SQL Programming: Advanced Tips
&
Techniques
Nov
29, 2010 5 days Fast Track to PowerBuilder: Part II
Dec
01, 2010 3 days Performance and Tuning using MDA Tables
Dec
06, 2010 5 days Performance and Tuning: ASE 15.0 Query
Optimization
Dec
13, 2010 5 days System and Database Administration: ASE
Please verify class
availability with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL
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news to: secretary@sugtx.org
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suggestions for our group? Would you like to present your Sybase solutions
to the Sybase Users’ Group of Texas? The group is always looking for
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