Too Jewish with Rabbi Cohon

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

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 the [...]

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

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 software are [...]

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

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 [...]

Big things afoot at Sybase, Inc.

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

Informatica dropping Sybase ASE for repositories?

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 product manager was [...]