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Please join us on August 11th for our next meeting “The Future of PowerBuilder” which will include a PowerBuilder roadmap update, technical presentations from versions 12.5 and beyond, and a round-table focus group session on PowerBuilder strategy.

Our meeting will begin with an opportunity to network with your peers, followed by some brief introductions and any business the group needs to conduct. Then we’ll move swiftly to the first of our technical presentations delivered by Sybase Rockstar, Dave Fish who will be LIVE in person!

PowerBuilder 12.5 has a lot of new features for both .NET and Win32 developers. In this session Dave will demonstrate the new .NET targets for PowerBuilder Assemblies, WCF Services, and Custom Visual User Objects (CVUOs) as .NET Assemblies. John will also demonstrate several new WPF DataWindow enhancements, and how PowerBuilder applications can call RESTful web services. Win32 developers will learn how they can update the look of their applications with new DataWindow enhancements as well as see new features for PowerBuilder Classic controls.

Up next will be Sue Dunnell, the PowerBuilder Product Manager who will present the roadmap for PowerBuilder with focus on the soon-to-be-released PowerBuidler 12.5 as well as the next release (tentatively 15) and beyond. As part of this session, Dave will give a sneak preview of enhancements planned for PowerBuilder 15, including the HTML5 DataWindow, and Dockable window support for Win32 PowerBuilder applications.

Afterwards we’ll have a round-table discussion about PowerBuiler. This session is aimed at all PowerBuilder users and is your chance to share your thoughts about the current direction for PowerBuilder and to give direct feedback to the PowerBuilder Product Manager on how Sybase can better position Sybase for the future.

Sue will also be available following this for individual one-on-one/small group sessions where you can sit down with her to discuss PowerBuilder needs that are specific to your business (and perhaps confidential). These are a great opportunity for your management to talk directly to the PowerBuilder product manager! You can register for one-on-sessions during the meeting registration process.

This event is free to all attendees.

When & Where

Thursday, August 11th 2011

3:30 Networking
4:00 Introductions, group business
4:15 PowerBuilder 12.5, PowerBuilder Classic – Dave Fish
5:45 PowerBuilder roadmap; v15 enhancements – Sue Dunnell / Dave Fish
6:30 PowerBuilder round-table
7:30 Individual sessions
8:00 Meeting concludes

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At: Dobler Consulting
8270 Woodland Center Blvd
Tampa, FL 33614

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For our out of town friends:

The live meeting link will be provided through the official ISUG registration process. Please check the confirmation email for the live meeting link.

I have the distinct honor to announce that Sybase invited me as a speaker at this year’s TechWave in Las Vegas. This year TechWave will be cohosted with SAP’s TechED. This joined event will attract 5000+ attendees and will draw a lot more attention to the Sybase event.

The topic I will be presenting is the highly charged theme of “Oracle to Sybase Migration”. This is a topic loaded with emotions and opinions. I think it is refreshing that Sybase is acknowledging this topic, as all the other vendors are doing for years. Let’s face it, prior to SAP most, if not all, Sybase migration projects where from Sybase to anywhere else. To me this is a huge showing of confidence from Sybase.

Here’s the official title and description of the session I will present at TechWave:

A Practitioner’s Guide to Successfully Migrate from Oracle to Sybase ASE (Parts 1 & 2)

CIO’s unanimously agree that reducing infrastructure costs is key to ensuring adequate budget investment to achieve top-line business growth.  While there are obviously many approaches to achieving this, one area gaining attention is migrating from the higher cost Oracle database platform to Sybase ASE,  Long known as the highly performant and resilient database powering much of Wall Street, its’ flexibility and low total cost of ownership, both in hardware and administrative costs, are making CIO’s take notice.  This 2-part session will explore this topic from two perspectives.  We will first dive into this topic from the perspective of the business’ "Program Manager" by identifying the major high-level tasks and milestones of a typical project plan as well as quantifying the level of effort and risk for each.  We will then explore this from an implementation perspective looking at some of the most critical and resource-intensive technical aspects of such projects to help you minimize the effort and risk of these types of career-enhancing projects.  If your company is considering its options for a competitive, yet cost-effective, database infrastructure, this is a session you can’t afford to miss.

Please join me at the most exciting TechWave in years. For more information go to:
http://www.sybase.com/techwave

See you there,
Peter

To further deepen the commitment to Sybase, Dobler Consulting is now an official ISUG partner. ISUG is the worldwide community for Sybase users with a huge member base. I believe that everybody who is involved with Sybase products as a user, developer, database expert or manager should be part of this community. Basic membership is free, which is almost unheard of for a worldwide professional association like ISUG.

Bottom-line, the more members ISUG can attract the more influential it gets and this transfers directly to you. With your feedback and product enhancement request, ISUG is in a position to make your word heard by Sybase.

As long time member of ISUG and advocate for its cause, becoming a partner with my company Dobler Consulting was a logical step. Starting in October of last year, Dobler Consulting is hosting the Tampa Bay ISUG meetings and since the re-launch we got into a rhythm of having a meeting every other month. The next meeting is scheduled August 11th and we will have an afternoon session with PowerBuilder and its roadmap, followed by an evening session on Sybase 15.7. Details will be released as soon as the schedule and agenda are confirmed.

Please visit the ISUG website at http://www.isug.com and if you’re not a member, sign up today.

Take care,
Peter