OSUG - October 11

Dear Sybase User;

    Please join us on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) Meeting. OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all Sybase products, including data management, tools and mobility are welcome to attend. This meeting will feature networking opportunities, product updates and a discussion.

    With the release of PowerBuilder 11.net Beta II in September Sybase has rounded the club-house turn and is heading to the production wire with their .Net 2.0 premier development tool. Some of our attendees at the March OSUG meeting witnessed Mr. Dave Fish's presentation on PB 11.Net Alpha. Since then, Sybase has continued through Beta I and then added a significant amount of new features to Beta II! OSUG is pleased to feature Mr. John Strano from Sybase USA on this feature topic. John Strano is a Sybase Technology Evangelist and a charter member of TeamSybase. He has been using PowerBuilder since 1991 and has authored articles for multiple industry periodicals. John has presented Sybase tools on an international basis since 1997. Over the last 15 years John has developed a variety of PowerBuilder applications from single-user scaling up to enterprise-class, web-based projects.

    Coupled with these two presentations will be a Sybase Canada open house for the new Ottawa office. Sybase Ottawa have moved from their Kanata location to Ottawa's downtown core at Constitution Square. They invite all OSUG members and friends to drop by their offices at the West Tower, 6th Floor to view the office and meet the Ottawa staff. This is especially exciting as the new Sybase Canada General Manager (formerly located in Toronto) is now Mr. Anthony (Tony) Antonello of Ottawa - Sybase Canada's former Technical Service Manager (congratulations Tony)! Joining in on all this excitement will be the new President of ISUG, the International Sybase User Group - Mike Harrold. It is rumoured that Mike may once again be bringing some interesting ISUG news and goodies with them to our meeting.

    We are also pleased to announce that Mr. Brian Vink - VP of product marketing for Sybase iAnywhere, will be on hand as well to answer any product questions. iAnywhere solutions is Sybase's "mobility" subsiderary located in Waterloo, Ontario. Joining Brian will also be Ms. Sue Dunnell - Senior. Product Manager, PowerBuilder Product Family from Sybase USA. She will be availble to answer any product questions as well! Finally, joining us from Quest software is Mr. Darren Mallette - Senior Technical Specialist, who can give you an update on the new QuestCentral and Spolight product features that work with Sybase's ASE database. Also, Ms Marthe Grolleau from Novalys who is here opening the new Ottawa office and can share with us the new features of the VisualExpert and VisualGuard products for PowerBuilder.
 

     The OSUG October 11th meeting will be held at Constitution Square in the Queen's University MBA lecture theatre. Constitution Square is located at 350 Albert Street (at Lyon) just across the street from the Crowne Plaza hotel. Bus access is right to the door and parking is available at the hotel, in Constitution Square and across the street. Queens University is located on the second floor (centre) and can be accessed from either the west or east elevators.

    Here are the meeting agenda, topics and the planned activities:

 Agenda

Time:            Topic:

7:45am        Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:10am        Introduction & welcome

8:15am        ISUG - Mike Harrold

8:35am        PB .Net roadmap - John Strano

  Advanced GUI and EAServer.Net - Chris Pollach 

8:50am        PB 11.Net Beta II Overview 

9:10am        .Net 2.0 - Building WebForm, WinForm & Smart Client applications

9:50am        Coffee Break

10:00am       NVO's as .NET Assembly, .NET Web Service, and .NET Interop

11:00am       Coffee Break

11:10am       SQL Anywhere 10 - Release Feature Highlights and Demos  - Dave Shiposh

12:10pm       Q & A Session (Dave, John, Sue, Brian, Darren, Chris, Mike)

12:25pm       Wrap-up

1:00pm - 4:00pm     Sybase Open House with technical discussions and more demonstrations!

Salon "A" Board Room - John Strano and Chris Pollach. A technical break out session on PowerBuilder 11.net, EAServer 6.0 and PocketBuilder. ** Starts at 1:30pm **

Sybase Board Room - Marthe Grolleau (Novalys). A technical break out session on VisualExpert and VisualGuard for PowerBuilder and .Net. 

Sybase Offices - Dave Shiposh and Brian Vink.  A technical breakout and Q&A session on iAnyWhere products.

Sybase Offices - Sue Dunnell.  A Q&A session on the PowerBuilder Product Family (1:00-2:00pm).

You can email her too at her Blog !

Sybase Offices - Darren Mallatte.  A technical breakout and Q&A session on Quest products.

  To register, please send an email to canregister@sybase.com. Please provide your contact information (including name, company, title, telephone number, email address) and the session name “OSUG Oct 11 Meeting” in the subject heading. Note: Registrants will be eligible for software draws and give-aways that will occur throughout the meeting!

     Get ready to see .Net and database development on "steroids " from Sybase! There is no cost to attend and we hope to see you there!

Regards ... Chris Pollach

OSUG CoOrdinator - cpollach@travel-net.com