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Category Archives: ISUG

ISUG’s mission is to serve the Sybase user community by acting as an information channel, an advocate for user issues, and as a force that helps to determine the product directions of Sybase. Bringing a fresh and much needed approach to the way a 21st Century user group operates, ISUG has been successful in pursuing these goals – thanks to its enthusiastic and knowledgeable members and unparalled support from Sybase itself.

Our objectives include:

Providing a constantly expanding list of membership benefits to Sybase users.
Supporting communication networks among users and between users and Sybase.
Serving as a strong advocate for issues of concern for Sybase users.
Providing a forum for users to influence future Sybase product direction.
Maintaining an channel for Sybase to share important information with users.
Sustaining an integrated user group that operates locally, regionally, and worldwide.
Encouraging creative and insightful new approaches to using Sybase technologies.
And we’re doing it, too. Our successes include:

A rapidly expanding membership base worldwide, most recently in the Asia-Pacific region
An enhancements request process with a high response rate
Many, many membership benefits from Sybase and ISUG partner companies
A variety of communication channels for users, including Internet-based communications, this Web site, and the bi-monthly ISUG Technical Journal.

Did you write an article for ISUG’s Technical Journal and either haven’t been paid or refused payment?

by Jason L Froebe on February 17, 2010, 11 comments

For those of you that don’t know, I have written several articles for the ISUG Technical Journal.  I’ve been paid for one and refused payment on the others.  Are there other authors that haven’t been paid for one reason or another? This is not meant as a dig at ISUG but simply determining if I’m [...]

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Be warned: International Sybase User Group (ISUG)’s free software for members from Sybase isn’t what you think it is!

by Jason L Froebe on February 2, 2010, 10 comments

Several people have come to me over the past few months regarding the use of the free Sybase software given away as a membership gift by the International Sybase User Group (ISUG) … plus a package of free Sybase Software valued at over $7000 Unfortunately there is a bit of misunderstanding that Not for Retail [...]

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Retraction and an apology for my article in the January/February 2009 issue of the ISUG Technical Journal

by Jason L Froebe on March 22, 2009, one comment

The article I submitted (migration to Oracle from Sybase and surviving in the workplace) was so very different as to the article that was published.  My piece was too controversial for ISUG to release (Sybase to Oracle) so it was changed, not be me and not by the editor.  It became a weird Unix to [...]

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Big things afoot at Sybase, Inc.

by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2009, 3 comments

It’s coming… 48 hours from now something big is coming!

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Informatica dropping Sybase ASE for repositories?

by Jason L Froebe on February 9, 2009, 3 comments

Joe Buhl over on ISUG‘s SIG-ASE mailing list posted a rather interesting note about Informatica: An Informatica product manager Informed me they were considering dropping support for ASE as a repository. Please contact me if you run Informatica and have ASE as a repository. Joe Buhl BT Conferencing joe.buhl@bt.com I can only hope that the [...]

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