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Sybase Users’ Group of Texas

TechWave 2004 ReviewCindy Bean

President, ISUG

Agenda

ISUG at TechWave 2004 Announcements Events

Sybase Database News Database Announcements Top Sessions

ISUG at TechWave 2004

Activities before TechWave Paper Review Committee Planning

Activities at TechWave ISUG Booth Member Meeting Innovation and

Achievement Awards User Group Officers Lunch Enhancements/Ask the

Expert sessions

ISUG Activities - ISUG Booth

ISUG Activities - Member Meeting

Reviewed ISUG at TechWave 2004 ISUG Since TechWave 2003 Future Plans

Raffled prizes

ISUG Activities - 2004 Award Winners

Innovation and Achievement Award Recognizes outstanding contribution by an

individual or an organization to the Sybase user community

Award selection criteria includes the ability of the user community to utilize the technique, product or service

Award recipients receive free TechWave conference pass, air and hotel accommodations

ISUG Activities - 2004 Award Winners

Sethu Meenakshisundaram In recognition of his tremendous support of the

Sybase community through regular contributions to mailing lists and newsgroups, and sharing of technical knowledge and insight to the Sybase user community. Sethu organized a series of webcasts earlier this year on the ASE 15 release and also works year round with the ISUG enhancements process.

ISUG Activities - 2004 Award Winners

Bruce Armstrong In recognition of his continuous support of the

Sybase community by writing articles and books, answering questions in the newsgroups and participation in ISUG techcasts. Bruce has authored several articles for the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal, and serves on their editorial board. He was one of the editors and authors of the book, PowerBuilder 9: Advanced Client/Server Development. Bruce has been using PowerBuilder since version 1.0 and is a charter member of TeamSybase, spending many hours responding to newsgroup questions.

ISUG Activities - 2004 Award Winners

Luc Van der Veurst In recognition of his 10 years of Support and

Participation on the ISUG Board of Directors. Luc joined the board of directors in 1994 as a co-director for enhancements. He has helped maintain the ISUG web site and automated many processes. Luc served as president of ISUG in 1998 and 1999, then as treasurer and is currently as a member at large.

ISUG Activities

User Group Officer Lunch Opportunity to meet the user group officers Thank them for their volunteer work

Enhancements/Ask the Experts Sessions Review ISUG Enhancements Process Panel of Sybase engineers and product

managers to answer questions

Sybase Database News

Database Announcements Beta Release of ASE 15.0 RFID Early Adopter Program Sun and Sybase break record for the world’s

largest data warehouse (155 TB => 55 TB)

Sybase Database News

Top Sessions Rob Verschoor/Peter Dorfman - The MDA Tables -

Finding Out What Goes On Inside ASE Peter Dorfman - Recent Developments and Future

Directions in ASE System Management Tools and Features

Steve Bologna - Real-World Performance and Tuning Vadiraja Bhatt – What’s new in ASE 12.5.2 Sumit Kundu - Adaptive Server Enterprise Futures Ed Barlow - Monitoring the Complex Enterprise

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