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 either misinformed or that Informatica can be convinced to retain support for Sybase ASE as a repository.
Adrian Bridgwater
Migration migraines: the top seven DBA data headaches
Once or twice a year I get to work with an excellent DBA pal from Illinois called Jason Froebe who describes himself as a, “Perlmonger capable of speaking fluent munchkin.” His personal blog is called Ramblings of a Geek, but I keep telling him he should rename it “Froebe’s Frontal Lobe”.
The work that Adrian mentions is a last minute article for the International Sybase User’s Group that I wrote and he edited. The benchmarking article that many people are waiting for is being held up by several groups giving their approval for the release of the material.
As always, it is a real pleasure to work with Adrian 
The ISUG Technical Journal Sep/Oct 2008 is out.
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International Sybase User Group
From the official announcement:
A video featuring an intrepid corporate reporter and her real-time hunt for her on-the-move CEO was the winner of the Sybase “How We Did It” Video Challenge.
“Finding Jono,” created by Anne Walker of St George Bank, Treasury & Valorem Systems Australia, follows Walker from Valorem Systems headquarters to the local mall and ultimately the mall parking garage in her quest to find CEO Jon Tinberg. She is able to track his movements thanks to a company system featuring such Sybase solutions as ASE, PowerBuilder, PocketBuilder and MobiLink synchronization technology.
Attendees of TechWave 2008 selected “Finding Jono” as the winner of the challenge after viewing it and other video submissions over the course of the conference week and voting via text message. Walker won the top prize of $5,000 for the submission.
Second-place winner in the contest was “Desktop Widget,” produced by Team Sybase’s Bruce Armstrong. The second-place ranking earned Armstrong a Flip Mino compact video camera.
Contest voters rated the videos based on originality, creativity and how well the video showcased the company’s innovative use of Sybase software to solve a real-world challenge.
Sybase extends its congratulations to the winners.
