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SYS-CON Events announced today that Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Developing Successful Cloud Strategies by Evaluating Data In...
Sybase and HCL Technologies Ltd. have announced a strategic alliance that empowers customers with real time operational business intelligence. Under this new partnership, HCL will provide business-aligned IT value services around Sybase’s high performance and proven data warehouse and ...
Sybase has announced the newest release of Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition, its enterprise data management solution that reduces the complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk server cluster environment. Sybase has worked with its early custom...
"Microsoft is pleased to be working with Sybase to enable custom tools such as PowerBuilder," said Matt Carter, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Visual Studio, as Sybase yesterday announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development ...
Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI). Revolutionary at its inception for creati...
Love the thought or loathe the thought, Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and I'm sure that those folks worried about privacy will be in the latter group. Google latitude runs in the iPhone's Safari Browser and can be saved as a B...
Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow.
Novalys is carrying out its annual worldwide survey on the use of PowerBuilder. Since 2001, the thousands of responses we receive have allowed us to follow the evolution of your PowerBuilder projects. Now you can help us to monitor the new trends in the PowerBuilder community by compl...
Whenever I speak or write (check out other recent articles) about Enterprise Mobility, I always express the necessity of Mobile Device Management, to cover all of the mobile devices that an Enterprise may have, in the very important areas of...
Today was the first day of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit, in the Roosevelt Hote in NYC.
The Ottawa Sybase User Group’s last meeting was held on May 6, 2009. This was an all day event that spanned two sessions - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning session included a technical presentation on features of the newly released PowerBuilder 11.5.1 and ...
This week, Frost & Sullivan awarded Sybase with its 2009 North American Mobility Award for Mobile Enterprise Platforms. Along with that Info Security Products Guide named Sybase the winner of the 2009 Global Product Excellence in Wireless/Mobile Security Solution Customer Trust Award.

 

** PowerBuilder 12 CTP Launch and Code Camp ** 

 

Dear Sybase User;

 

    Please join us on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mi...

Vantrix has announced that Sybase 365 has extended its contract with Vantrix and will integrate the newest version of Vantrix Message Optimizer and Mediadvance software platform. The agreement broadens a longstanding partnership between the two companies and provides Sybase 365 with ac...
In the last 6 months at least, I have been blogging on many topics but with one central theme, I believe mobility is key to enterprise companies, not only now but for their future. This is especially true in the current economic climate, where cost effectiveness, rapid decisions, strea...
Back in August of 2007, I wrote an article entitled "Dynamically Generating Next-Generation Charts from PowerBuilder DataWindows" that demonstrated one method of dynamically generating Flash charts from within a PowerBuilder application. I was primarily writing that from the perspectiv...
Many people use the New Year as an opportunity to reassess what they're doing and where they are going. The PBDJ editorial team would like to take that opportunity this New Years with regard to the magazine. In particular, we'd like to hear from you, our customers, regarding PBDJ, its ...
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t...
Since I'm in the middle of moving to a new city and need to get organized, I thought I'd roll a little application using SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, and Amazon Web Services to help organize my media collection. In doing so, I'm going to check out some cool features in SQL Anywhere, in ...
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...
I just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous increase in the amount of Blog activity that I have received over the past year. I think (and hope) that this is because many Sybase professionals out there have come to visit my site for latest information on the Sybase scene. Since I starte...
This year TechWave 2007 took place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. For those of you who didn't make it, the following is a recap of the events, with a couple of thoughts and suggestions thrown in. Officially the only thing going on Sunday was conference registration. However, there is a ...
The EAServer .NET client is one of the most important features in EAServer 6.1. This new feature enables .NET to communicate with EAServer components using IIOP. It provides underlying marshaling support for PowerBuilder's WinForm applications with EAServer and it's also a way to inter...
It's been the bane of PowerBuilder development since day one. You have a DataWindow that contains one or more text blocks that, when previewed for printing or printed, span a page boundary. The result: the DataWindow incorrectly handles portions of the text. You may find some text on t...
Sybase has announced new Microsoft .NET Framework-based enhancements to PowerBuilder 11 and DataWindow.NET 2.5. New features for PowerBuilder include Windows Vista support, .NET Framework incremental compile capabilities, and database driver enhancements. DataWindow .NET 2.5 has been e...
Sybase, Inc., has announced that it has won seven Gold and three Silver Mobile Star Awards from MobileVillage, a provider of market development and news services about mobile technology. The annual Mobile Star Awards aim to honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments, a...
Sybase, Inc., has announced, in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, that Sybase IQ powers the world's largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report. The benchmarks were achieved in large part due to the compression capability of ...
Developers, database administrators, IT managers, sales professionals and executives from 40 countries around the world are meeting in Las Vegas this week for the annual Sybase, Inc., TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference.
Sybase iAnywhere was recently recognized by IDC as a worldwide leading provider of mobile middleware. The report, Worldwide Mobile Middleware 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares, measured Sybase iAnywhere?s higher revenues and market share-results that placed the company ahead of...
'The Unwired Enterprise is already a reality - now we are taking it to the next level, enabling companies to easily develop and deploy mobile applications that extend the reach of business-critical information to users on the front lines,' said John Chen, chairman, CEO and president of...
Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, and HTC Corp., a provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, have formed a global alliance. The companies are teaming on strategic business, engineering and marketing initiatives designed to delive...
AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA...
05/26/2007 - TopWizProgramming announced that PBSearch was updated to support PB11 and to add several new features. www.topwizprogramming.com/pbsearch.html
Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr...
With the release of PowerBuilder 11 scheduled for 2007, Sybase will be entering the Microsoft .Net 2.0 world with their premier development tool. Some of our attendees at the October 11th OSUG meeting witnessed Mr. John Strano's overview presentation on PB 11 Beta. Again on January 24t...
Event-driven programming model offers an excellent architecture based on loosely-coupled components consuming and throwing events. In this tutorial I'll show how to design component that communicate with each other via events.
Starz Entertainment, a provider of premium movies along with flagship Starz and Encore brands, servicing approximately 42 million subscribers, selects Appeon to Web-enable mission-critical applications.
Discus Dental Software has announced that Appeon Corporation, a strategic partner of Sybase Inc., has successfully completed the first phase of migrating DentalVision dental practice management solution, built with Sybase PowerBuilder, to the Web and J2EE.
Appeon Corporation has successfully helped RES-Q Healthcare Systems to migrate key modules from its Labor Resource Management System, built with Sybase PowerBuilder, to the Web and J2EE. Ninety percent of the application objects and code were converted automatically, and the project wa...
We begin this article by asking the question: Why would you want to integrate real-time GPS data into your PowerBuilder applications anyway? After all, it's not likely you are going to connect a GPS receiver to your desktop computer and ask yourself where you are currently located. (At...