[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT: July PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                  will meet
                          7 PM Thursday Jul 5, 2007
                                      at
                          Portland State University
                                      in
                            Smith Memorial Center
                                   Room 327
                           On the block bounded by
       SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th)

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                                 PRESENTATION

                                    Sybase
                                      by

                                  Brad Reid
                            <bradr at ianywhere.com>

                               made possible by


                               Patrick Enright
                         <Patrick.Enright at sybase.com>


      I don't have a very good description of this presentation yet; but
      Sybase is an old well established Relational Data Base Management
      System using the SQL language - much like mySQL, postgres, Oracle,
      Informix, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server.  Sybase predates most of
      these.  In fact, I think Sybase created Microsoft SQL Server for
      Microsoft.
      In any case, Sybase is a very stable high preformance data base
      widely used for mission critical applications in the health care
      and financial services industries.
      I'm not sure when Sybase became available on Linux, but "since
      its free promotion in September 2004, there have been over 30,000
      Sybase ASE Express Edition for Linux downloads from sybase.com."
      I believe Sybase is now Open Source, but I can't find anything
      on this on sybase.com so this may be wrong.
      I'm sure Brad will let us know for sure.
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          Agenda:

              7:00 - 7:30  Business
                   We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                   including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                   PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                   etc.

                   Also, there are changes coming for LinuxFund.
                   I will spend a few minutes discussing these.

              7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                   See above

              9:00 - ...  Beer
                                  The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
                                  915 SE Hawthorne



                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                          560 SE Alexander
                                          Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                          (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                          dmandel at pdxLinux.org


          P.S.  Biznix which specializes in Linux and UNIX support for
                the Business Computer User.
                As I understand, they haven't been meeting for a while,
                but intend to have regular meetings again in 2006.
                See http://www.Biznix.org for details.

          P.S.  PDXLUG provides a less formal alternative to PLUG
                emphasizing the needs of new users.   PDXLUG meets
                every second Thursday of the month in southeast Portland.
                See http://www.PDXLUG.org for details.

          P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
                at 6:00 PM on the first Tuesday of the month.
                They have out grown their meeting location at PEAK
                and are now meeting on the OSU campus.
                See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.
                In July Karl Vollmer will dicuss web site construction
                including a possible discussion of AJAX.

          P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
                See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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