Shawn and Al write:
 
>.I am interested in contacting other Hewlett-Packard 3000 user's interested in
>.forming a Special Interest Group (SIG) for Powerbuilder. If I have enough
>.responses I will help organize a meeting at the next Interex meeting
>in Anaheim,
>.CA August 5-9, 1996.
>
>.My main interest is Powerbuilder/HP connectivity issues, mainly ODBC
>and others.
>
>.SigAllbase covers most all of our needs relative to ODBC and SQL, but
>there are
>.specific issues which are PowerBuilder/HP3K related only. Also there
>is interest
>.in relating our needs to other vendors such as LeeTech and M. B. Foster and
>.Assoc. and others.
>
>.Al Ankers
>.Data Processing Manager
>.Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia
>.PO Box 1346
>.Chesapeake, Virginia 23327-1346
>.(804) 399-8924
>.(804) 397-7678
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>Al, how about you open it up a bit, since ODBC is really just a piece
>of the middleware picture, why not make a SIG that covers Middleware in
>general?  I am sure you could get LeeTech, MBFoster, MiniSoft, and
>others to get involved.  That way you may find better ways to connect
>Powerbuilder and cover the bigger issues, I know that that kind of SIG
>would be very useful for me.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Shawn Gordon
>
 
There is a SIG called 'SIGCS' (client/server) which is setup to deal with
these types of issues. I would encourage everyone to consider this SIG as a
place for Powerbuilder and middleware issues to be discussed. There was a
meeting (the first I believe) at IPROF Saturday afternoon and given the
timing and notice, was well attended.
 
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