Thank you to all the people that made this years techwave such a great success. From customers to partners to employees there was an air of excitement about or continued commitment to the products in our portfolio even after the SAP acquisition. The roadmap sessions held on Wednesday afternoon were all well attended with good questions from the audience answered by the product managers. In the IQ roadmap session Yiwen lead us through the next three years of product direction, while Raj in the ASE session showed a clear commitment to fulfill outstanding customer requests in the upcoming releases.

All in all these releases lookto keep us a great market position to continue our double digit growth.

Many ASE users are familiar with the concept of using Unix/Linux named pipes (FIFOs) in combination with BCP in order to speed up transferring data between ASE servers. These named pipes are the things you create with the Unix/Linux mkfifo command.

Guess what? Despite this having been used by many Sybase users forever, using BCP with FIFOs has formally always been unsupported by Sybase. (more…)