Opening day at Techwave 2008 - Vegas
Yesterday was the opening day at Techwave in Vegas. I attended the keynote by John Chen and captured some keypoints; overall he sounded very optimistic regarding the direction in which we are headed. He also had a plug in for Sybase Unwired Platform demo that I had done to him last week and that was cool :) If you are interested in looking at the demo he was "raving" about, come over to the expo hall and I'll be there in the SUP booth. I also have a flash of an application build by a partner (iTask) based out of South Africa and they are around if you are interested in finding out how they have leveraged SUP for their mobile application framework.
You can also view the keynotes online here.
Some of the key points I captured from his keynote:
* Growth in the database revenue..
* State of the business
o IP
* 30 product releases
* 14 patents
* 15% spent on R&D
o Customer momentum
* Over 1200 new customers
* 800 mobile enterprises
* 200 new IQ customers
* 164 new messaging customers
* 800m new mobile subscribers
o People
* 9 best places to work awards
o Market leadership
* Gartner magic quadrants, forester waves
o Revenue Performance
* 16% revenue growth
* Shareholder return consistently returning more than major indices and peers
* Unwired Enterprise – Market Trends
o Growth in devices and smart phones
o 3.5b mobile subscribers
o 35% growth in world wide broadband adoption
o Data volume and velocity growth.
* What has been Sybase working on
o Mbanking and MMS 365
o RAP- The trading edition
o ASE Cluster edition
o Sybase Unwired Platform
o SQL Anywhere 11
o Afaria 6.0
o PowerBuilder 11.5
* Growth – where is it
o 32% CAGR for IQ
o 111% CAGR for Mobility
o 72% for mobile subscribers reached.
Was'SUP : The tooling story - Visual Studio or Eclipse; your choice, we support!!
Once upon a time the developers kingdom got split into two provinces, Visual Studio (Windows Platform) and Eclipse (Windows and every other platform) based on various factors like corporate IT decisions, deployment environment, language familiarity, etc. There were some other splinter provinces like (Netbeans, etc.) which continued to have a decent community but not large enough to cause any trouble.
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Managing the Data Explosion: Peter Thawley's Musings
Hi! I’m Peter Thawley, a Senior Director and Architect in the CTO Group at Sybase. With nearly 20 years of work with Sybase products, both as a customer and an employee, I’ve experienced the full gamut of Sybase’s highs and lows. Most of you know me as the original author of sp_sysmon and a performance & tuning guy. Today, I spend a lot of my time working with customers on some of the more difficult problems they face in distributed data management – some of it is operational type of work with DBAs, some architectural with application development teams.
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Modeling and Metadata at TechWave
Viva Las Vegas!
Jeff Pryslak here. I am Design and Development Evangelist for Sybase.
TechWave, Sybase's user conference in balmy Vegas, is around the corner and I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what we'll be doing around Enterprise Modeling.
To kick off our Enterprise Modeling track, David Dichmann, our enterprise architecture guru, will be discussing PowerDesigner and metadata management at the Modeling Plenary session. So what exactly is metadata and why is it so important to manage?
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Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers!
Helloooo PowerBuilder Developers! John Strano here, Technology Evangelist for Sybase. You know, I really do consider myself ‘Joe PowerBuilder’, having been a developer, having taught PowerBuilder, and having learned a mountain of stuff from those who'd program rings around me when I first met them. Frankly the greatest source of what I’ve learned over the last 17 years is my peers. Guess where the greatest concentration of your peers will be this year? Of course, TechWave. PowerBuilder has been more than central to my career, just like for many of you. And to keep both our careers moving full steam ahead, I've been working with the PowerBuilder teams to assemble technical sessions that’ll be presented by some talented peers, education sessions and an informative plenary session covering the latest and greatest news we have for PowerBuilder. This’ll all be showcased at “PowerBuilder Central”…our annual TechWave conference held in August.
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TechWave Registration is now open!
Join us Aug. 4 – 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference.
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ASE Cluster Edition Featured on Sun's Homepage
I just found out that ASE Cluster Edition is being featured on the sun.com homepage. Pretty sweet!
Here is a link to the featured story.
Cheers,
Dave
New PocketBuilder Demos
I am finally adapting my PocketBuilder Demo applications, so they can be included in the PocketBuilder DVD.
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TechWave 2008 Call for Papers Extended!
Due to popular demand we are extending the TechWave Call for Papers one extra week to Monday, March 31.
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Sybase at EclipseCon this week
Sybase is one of the silver sponsors for EclipseCon2008. Some of us will be at the sybase booth. Note that the exhibit hall pass is free
and you can sign up online. DTP and Sybase are going to be represented in various talks and tutorials. Please stop by if you've any
DTP/Sybase questions. You may also want to stay for one of the evenings as most of the evenings there is a party
sponsored by one of the companies. Stop by at the booth if you just want to find out which is the cool party ..)
Tutorials
- Implement Schema Editing Based on Delta DDL (Dafan Yang, Sybase)
- Data Applications in Eclipse: The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (Sheila Sholars, Loic Jullien, IBM; John Graham, Sybase)
- Enabling support for a new database or data source in Eclipse (Philippe Ombredanne, EasyEclipse/nexB)
Long Talks
- Introducing DTP Open Data Access Framework (Linda Chan, Actuate)
- Introducing the DTP SQL Query Builder (Brian Payton, IBM)
Short talks
- Creating Windows Mobile Database Applications with Eclipse (Jose Ramos, Sybase)
- Push for Usability of Data Tools Wizards (Brian Fitzpatrick, Sybase)
- DTP Help-Helper Plug-in (John Graham, Sybase)
