Calling all Sybase DBA's
We would like to extend an invite to join our new free community... The Sybase DBA Development Program...
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Techwave 2008 - It's all good baby!!
You know it's a good sign when the food starts tasting much better :) That is how I compare year after year. For some reason, I personally felt a lot of energy and optimism from attendees and had great traffic at my booth. More than that, there were many great questions from the folks attending the conference, which is always good.
I managed to stay reasonably busy in the SUP booth with good traffic although there was a lack of chairs. We were positioned next to the various techathlon events that were being held and I managed to show off my non-existent footie skills.
I'm excited getting closer to release date for SUP. It's been an excellent group effort to get it out considering we had teams in Paris, Pune, Singapore, Shanghai, Xian, Dublin, London, etc. Hardest was coordinating conference calls within the teams. Techwave gave me a chance to start putting the message out with real demos and there were some good questions about the product that we've also been thinking about and it validated some of our future direction. The developer tools message was well received by the audience and they felt that would simplify their development efforts a lot.
And I did have some fun too. WHIVSIV :)
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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Was'SUP - No, I'm not that cool, it's still geek speak!!
You are going to hear a lot of this feeble attempt at humor from the resident geeks at Techwave (I guess we can exclude the marketing folks as they are pretty cool). If you have been attending the past few years of Techwave or visited Sybase home page or may be have attended any one of the presentations over the last few years, there has been a lot of chatter about Unwired Enterprise Platform.
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Minnesota ISUG Event on June 18th
There will be a meeting of the Minnesota Sybase User Group (MNSUG) on June 18th. The meeting is being held in downtown St. Paul at the Landmark Center which is a really nice venue.
We are doing a full day session with data management covered in the morning, a lunch (free food!), and tools in the afternoon. Getting both the DBA group and the developer group together can be a little tough, and we hope this is a good format to bring the two groups together, at least for lunch.
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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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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)
TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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SySAM, take 3
First things first, I want to wish everyone a belated 'Happy Holidays' and wish everyone a 'Happy New Year'. 2007 was a busy year for me, and as we start off 2008, my gut tells me it's going to be just as busy as last year if not more so. Now, having said that, I wanna blog about SySAM one more time.
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