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PBDJ News Desk monitors the world of Sybase PowerBuilder to present IT professionals with updates on technology advances, business trends, new products and standards in the PowerBuilder and i-technology space since 1994! BPEL is a mystery to me. EbXML? Sorry, not a clue. These things, of course, are about defining and executing business rules and processes in enterprise application servers. On my travels through the world of PowerBuilder applications I’ve frequently come across the need for business ru...Jul. 3, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 676 |
 PowerBuilder 11.5 was released in the third quarter of 2008 and by early 2009 had made its way into many IT development shops. The draw is a significant set of enhancements that move the development experience closer to the nirvana anticipated in the PowerBuilder 12.0 release. PB 12.0 ...Jul. 3, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
 Today was the first day of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit, in the Roosevelt Hote in NYC.Jun. 22, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 708 |
 This is the second part of an ongoing series about the new features that were added in PowerBuilder 11.5. In the first part, we looked at the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) and the impact it had on developers. In this part, we’re going to look at a number of the improvements...Jun. 12, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 840 |
 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 ...Jun. 10, 2009 12:29 AM EDT Reads: 441 |
 Sybase iAnywhere has announced that Afaria® now supports Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM) standards for device management. The latest release of Afaria expands upon its proven, enterprise-class device management and security capabilities by offering OMA DM-based device m...May. 14, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,046 |
 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. May. 7, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 583 |
 Sybase has announced two industry award wins for its enterprise mobility platform. Frost & Sullivan awarded Sybase with its 2009 North American Mobility Award for Mobile Enterprise Platforms and Info Security Products Guide named Sybase the winner of the 2009 Global Product Excellence ...May. 5, 2009 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 801 |
 Oracle has provided support for failing over database connections and, through Transparent Application Failover (TAF), doing so in a way that allows connected applications to continue functioning relatively uninterrupted during and after the failover. The connected application has to w...Apr. 20, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 606 |
** 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... Apr. 19, 2009 09:03 PM EDT Reads: 1,177 |
 People always like the shiny and new, regardless of whether it’s gadgets, clothes, cars, or technology. It’s exciting to get something new; we feel good about ourselves, like we’re a part of an elite group, ahead of the curve, “in the know.” Yet “buyer’s remorse” is also a well-known p...Apr. 16, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 932 |
 A picture is worth a thousand words. We all have heard this saying a countless number of times. But what if you don’t understand what is drawn in the picture? I was approached once with a request to review requirements specifications for some module. The document contained a scheme tha...Apr. 15, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,065 |
The Ottawa Sybase User Group would like to congratulate the Ottawa Heart Institute in its nomination for a prestigious ComputerWorld Laureate award! This is an amazing recognition of the innovative design of this PowerBuilder application and the dedication of the development and manage... Apr. 9, 2009 08:14 AM EDT Reads: 420 |
 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...Apr. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 707 |
 Following on from my earlier blog "Securing and Delivering Business Data on the iPhone", today Sybase shipped a new version of iAnywhere Mobile Office for Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the enterprise. The new release offers enhanced administrative, network security, deplo...Mar. 24, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,611 |
 In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, Senthil Krishnapillai - Sybase iAnywhere's Director of Product Management - talks about the mobile email market and Sybase iAnywhere's most recent announcements regarding Mobile Office and the iPhone 3.0.Mar. 24, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,840 |
 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...Mar. 12, 2009 05:55 AM EDT Reads: 2,558 |
 Sybase Chairman and CEO John Chen who appeared on CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday said Sybase is providing mobile solutions to SAP. "Sybase and SAP are both leaders in their respective spaces. We will bring what consumers are enjoying for years to the enterprise users. Immediate busines...Mar. 11, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,835 |
 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...Feb. 27, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,076 |
 For this article I'll focus on SQL Anywhere version 10 and PowerBuilder 11.0. Some of the features reviewed may not be supported in previous versions of these software releases. In Part 1 I discussed the installation of SQL Anywhere, developing a schema, and the Database Painter. In Pa...Feb. 20, 2009 03:13 PM EST Reads: 1,289 |
 Sybase announced continued momentum for the latest version of its PowerDesigner Enterprise Architecture modeling tool with the addition of new customers from many industries across the globe. Educational Testing Services (ETS), La Poste mail service of Belgium and Osthus consulting in ...Feb. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 828 |
 TecnoTRENDS has been using PowerBuilder as its main development platform for years. The ultimate reason for choosing PowerBuilder was the versatility of the Sybase DataWindow control available under this platform. In short, the DataWindow control provides a significant productivity boo...Feb. 13, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 672 |
 Sybase’s Q4 2008 earnings results, just announced, showed a revenue increase of 3% to $305.1 million from $295.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2007 and a total revenue for 2008 increase of 10% year over year to $1.13 billion. This makes it its best quarter and year in company histor...Jan. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,889 |
 The pressure to deliver higher application service levels and guarantees of system uptime is increasing. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition is built for these extreme demands. New Virtualized Resource Management technology and a shared-disk cluster architecture pro...Jan. 26, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 1,713 |
 PBDJ has been published since 1994 to provide independent news for the PowerBuilder community. We are writing to hear how we could better support you and the rest of the PowerBuilder community. We’d very much appreciate it if you could answer the following questions before January 31st...Jan. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,134 |
 Sybase WorkSpace simplifies and unifies database development for the ASE and SQL Anywhere platforms with capabilities that support the complete development life cycle for database applications—from development, debugging, testing, to deployment. View both Peter Thawley, ASE Evangelist ...Jan. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,049 |
 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 ...Jan. 20, 2009 02:38 PM EST Reads: 729 |
 In a recent report, IDC recognized Sybase iAnywhere as a top mobile middleware market leader for the sixth consecutive year. The mobile middleware market grew to $775.7 million in 2007, up from $666.9 million in 2006, resulting in growth of 16.3%. IDC currently forecasts this market to...Jan. 20, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,651 |
 SYS-CON Media proudly announces that the Website showcasing one of its most distinguished titles, PowerBuilder Developer's Journal (PBDJ), founded in 1994 and now now in its sixteenth consecutive year of publication, has been stunningly re-designed and re-launched at Jan. 19, 2009 03:25 AM EST Reads: 2,150 |
 Peter Thawley, Senior Director & Architect at Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1. Thawley, a member of Sybase’s CTO Group where he brings over 22 years of experience in software archit...Jan. 13, 2009 06:32 PM EST Reads: 4,096 |
 .NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be in line with PowerBuilder's .NET strategy (.NET deployment and .NET development), PB11 introduced many .NET-related features: its .NET compiler enables users to develop .NET Windows Forms (including SmartClient) applications and ...Jan. 5, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,488 |
 Last year, after migrating a client's application from PFC 5.0.02 to 6.5, then applying some enhancements to take advantage of new features, the program began giving the following PFC error message: "For certain functionality the PFC DataStore requires a reference to its parent wi...Jan. 1, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 871 |
 One of the typical problems developers face when using the HTML DataWindow (HTML DW) is that there's no SetRowFocusIndicator() method to allow users to see which row is the current one. This can confuse the user and lead to errors. For example, without a current row indicator users may...Jan. 1, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 969 |
 Sybase Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Irfan Khan has been with the company for over 15 years. He oversees technology evangelism efforts and is chartered with ensuring the voice of Sybase's customers and the needs of the market are reflected within the company's innovation ...Dec. 29, 2008 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,523 |
 Even the best physical filing systems have drawbacks: the cost of storage space, the need to pay rent for records that have to be kept off-site, the time it takes to locate and refile documents, and, of course, the time wasted finding lost or misfiled documents. You might even have a d...Dec. 24, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,009 |
 In PowerBuilder 11.5 we introduce features that allow you to easily give your existing DataWindows a new look and feel. New properties are added to columns and controls to allow you to add tooltips. You no longer have to settle for single-colored backgrounds. We have introduced propert...Dec. 24, 2008 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,397 |
 This group is intended to introduce and reintroduce next-generation architecture for mobile enterprise application development for discussion. It used to be just MAG's now we have MEAP's... Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms. Enterprises will increase their employees’ and customer...Dec. 15, 2008 07:43 PM EST Reads: 1,443 |
The finalists have been chosen. Now is your chance to vote for the technology or product that you think is the best in its category. Voting is now underway and will end on Monday, December 15, 2008. Dec. 9, 2008 06:08 PM EST Reads: 1,306 |
 Virtualization is actively being used by Sybase IT to help solve power/cooling issues as well as transform the datacenter into an environment that brings greater benefits to their customers, especially the engineering organization. Average CPU utilization was very low on physical serve...Nov. 27, 2008 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,820 |
 Last year I wrote an article in PBDJ describing an ASP.NET project that was done with DataWindow.NET in the browser ("Prognos," Volume 14, Issue 4) and PowerBuilder Web Services in the back end. The front end consisted of an intro page, two data entry pages, and one page with the resul...Nov. 26, 2008 11:10 AM EST Reads: 2,687 |
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