PowerBuilder Third-Party
Coolbar
08/12/2005 - Aart Onkenhout introduced Coolbar, wrappers around the Microsoft rebar and toolbar control to make it possible to have Office XP- and Office 2003-style toolbars in PowerBuilder applications. Although some of the features will be available in the newest PowerBuilder version (10.5), these wrappers make it possible to give an Office look to applications written in PB7 to PB 10.2 (and 10.5 too).
www.onkenhout.speedlinq.nl/coolbar.html

Coolmenu
08/12/2005 - Aart Onkenhout also released a new build of Coolmenu: 2.5 Build 126. Coolmenu now reacts on theme and color changes. There was also a change to the imagelist to show XP-style icons with alpha channel in the correct way.
www.onkenhout.speedlinq.nl/coolmenu.html

Real's PowerBuilder How-To
08/05/2005 - Réal Gagnon added two new examples to its site (Get the number of items in a Treeview, Detect network, and/or Internet connectivity state) and modified two previous examples (Use Microsoft Crypto API, Get the IP address).
www.rgagnon.com/pbdetails/pb-new.html

PBL Peeper
08/24/2005 - Techno-Kitten.com released a new version of PBL Peeper. One significant change is that ORCA (compiling) technology has been deprecated. Until now, PBL Peeper was tied to a specific PowerBuilder build because of a bug in ORCA. Now that option is gone because there's no ORCA functionality to turn on, but few features and options are gone as a result. If it weren't for the incompatibility between ANSI/DBCS PBL functions and Unicode PBL functions (and platform issues), there would only be a single version of PBL Peeper. That's coming in the next release.
www.techno-kitten.com/PBL_Peeper/pbl_peeper.html

Corporate
Unwired Accelerator 7.0/Unwired Orchestrator 5.0
08/22/2005 - Sybase released Sybase Unwired Accelerator 7.0 and Sybase Unwired Orchestrator 5.0. These new versions further enhance the ability of enterprise customers to create composite applications quickly and then extend them easily to their mobile workforce. Unwired Accelerator 7.0 is the newest version of Sybase's rapid mobilization platform and is designed to help customers more easily push critical information out to the mobile workforce via PDAs, Smart Phones, and other wireless devices.

iAnywhere
Innovator Awards
08/23/2005 - iAnywhere Solutions, a Sybase subsidiary, presented its fifth annual Innovator Awards to American Technology Corporation, ELMO ICT Solutions, and Eleven Technology. The awards recognize iAnywhere Solutions Alliance Program members who have demonstrated innovative use of iAnywhere technology as the foundation for cutting-edge applications that enable their customers to have anywhere, anytime access to enterprise information.

SQL Anywhere Beta
08/22/2005 - iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, has opened registration for a beta of the next generation of SQL Anywhere, its market-leading data management and synchronization solution. Attendees at Sybase's TechWave 2005 User Training and Solutions Conference got a sneak peek of the major enhancements in the upcoming release, which is code named Jasper. Beta software will be available in the fourth quarter of 2005, and developers are invited to pre-register for the beta program at www.ianywhere.com/sqlanybeta.

SQL Anywhere for Linux
08/08/2005 - iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, says its data management and synchronization product, SQL Anywhere Studio, is seeing ongoing adoption among customers using Linux. Innovative companies such as ELMO ICT Solutions, Security Applications, Inc., and Servoy BV have deployed SQL Anywhere-powered applications on Linux, and are among thousands of companies worldwide that use SQL Anywhere to manage enterprise data in server, desktop, and handheld devices.

Answers Anywhere 4.0
08/01/2005 - iAnywhere Solutions, a Sybase subsidiary, unveiled the latest version of Answers Anywhere, a robust, scalable middleware platform for building extremely easy-to-use application interfaces that features powerful context understanding and natural language capabilities. Answers Anywhere 4.0 enables end users whether they're on wireless phones, using handheld PDAs, interacting with customized consoles, or at desktop computers - to access desired functionality and obtain relevant answers to their queries easily and quickly.
www.ianywhere.com/products/answers%5fanywhere.html

Events
The Second Annual Latin America PowerBuilder Developer Meeting
October 28-29 Bogota, Colombia
Topics include DataWindow.NET, JSP, Web DataWindow, Service-Oriented Architecture, EAServer, PowerBuilder 10, Web Services, and PocketBuilder.
http://www.powerbuilder.org

Adaptive Server Enterprise
BMC Software
08/23/2005 - Sybase and BMC Software (BMC), a provider of enterprise management solutions, have extended their strategic alliance to offer customers a total systems management solution including database, backup, and recovery tools. The combination of BMC SQL-BackTrack and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) will not only deliver database and systems management tools from a single vendor, but also provide online object-level operations for the Sybase platform, simplifying the backup and recovery process and providing optimal availability and maximum protection against lost data.

IBM OpenPower
08/01/2005 - Sybase has broadened a long-standing relationship with IBM to help joint customers migrate to Linux for improved data management and business analytics. Under the terms of their agreement Sybase and IBM will bundle IBM OpenPower hardware with Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition for Linux - described as the first enterprise-class commercial database to enable users to develop and deploy projects on Linux for maximum performance and manageability without cost and with reduced risk.