Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

The following is MY perception of Sybase’s PowerBuilder:
Years ago PowerBuilder was king.  No one could touch it.  It was relatively inexpensive.  Microsoft’s Visual Basic matured and the Pascal based Borland’s Delphi was released.  Then it fell and fall it did.
As it was falling from the throne Sybase purchased Powersoft, makers of PowerBuilder.  As the the [...]

What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org
It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down.  Don’t believe me?  You know that Firefox web browser, Thunderbird newsreader, most Adobe products, Miro, etc all have it embedded?  – reference http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
We use it extensively at work as:

staging for mass data [...]

When T V S Murty asked on the sybase-l mailing list about Sybase ASE, multicores and Sybase licensing, the discussion quickly drilled down to whether or not multicores were beneficial to Sybase ASE and database software in general. Jeff Tallman, of Sybase fame, described in detail how Sybase ASE and multicore processors relate to each [...]