I have added a new section under the calendar on the right for Upcoming Progress Webinars.  I will try to keep this updated with what is coming.

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Progress Road Show Coming in October!!

Remember the mini-Tech Peak Progress had a few years back? They are bringing back something similar and it promises to be an awesome event! It will be October 24th in downtown Portland at the Westin Benson hotel, starting at 8:30am and ending with a 12:30pm lunch. You should be getting a flyer in the mail about this soon.

We don't get much here in Oregon, but I've lobbied heavily for this and they have agreed to bring it here. I'm excited and I think everyone will enjoy it a lot! Below are the details, I look forward to this and seeing all of you there. :)

The Progress Innovation Road Show
Fall ‘06

Bridging the Gap with Innovation

Today’s Progress is not the company you think you know. Offering a bol der, broa der and more diverse portfolio as a result of strategic investments in leading technologies, Progress continues on its path to innovation—bridging the gap between the business demands and technology requirements. As Progress and the user community continue to evolve as a result of innovation, one thing remains constant: it’s all about building, running and managing the world’s best business applications.

Now we are taking our latest innovations on the road across North America. Join Progress and your local Progress User Group to network and explore the many ways the Progress portfolio of products and services can address your new business challenges.

Who Should Attend?

All business and technical professionals seeking to learn more about:

• How the Complete Progress Portfolio can Grow your Business
• How Progress Resources can Support your Growth
• The People Behind the Products and Vision
• The Benefits of the Progress User Community

Whether you are new to Progress and the Progress User Community, or have years of Progress experience, you can benefit from this session.

Where to Attend:

9/19 Atlanta, GA Southeastern PUG
9/21 Bedford, MA New England PUG
9/26 Chicago, IL Chicago PUG
9/28 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis PUG
10/10 Toronto, ON Toronto PUG
10/17 Brookfield, WI Wisconsin PUG
10/18 E. Lansing, MI Western Michigan & Michigan PUGs
10/24 Portland, OR Oregon PUG

The Agenda

Registration and Refreshments

Welcome

Innovation in Action
David E.Olson
Progress Director of Enterprise Solutions and Lead Evangelist
Join David for a quick tour of Progress technologies in action via a live demonstration featuring Progress OpenEdge, Sonic ESB, EasyAsk, Apama, Actional and DataXtend. David will show you how the latest Progress technologies can work together to integrate the supply chain, monitor business in real time, understand key performance metrics, provide ad hoc query and reporting capabilities for business executives, and monitor the IT infrastructure.

Biography
David is the Director of Enterprise Solutions for Progress’ OpenEdge Division, and has responsibility for the technical adoption of Progress solutions. Mr. Olson is currently involved with application architectures for the OpenEdge Architect, Tools for Business Logic and .NET interfaces. Since joining Progress in 1994, Mr. Olson has been actively involved in product management and technical marketing of the company’s application development products. He has held management, technical, and marketing positions in Progress’ ActiveX, Java, and Sonic business units

Customer Testimonial

Bridging the Resource Gap
Discover how Progress can help you with your innovation and growth. Learn more about Progress resources and tools, OpenEdge principals, Technical Support, Education, PSDN, Sales contacts, etc.

Wrap Up

Exploring Innovation Forum
Whether your interest lies in business, technology, or joining a local Progress User Group, you will find a kindred spirit and a forum in which to network.

Register Today!

For location information and to register, please visit http://www.progress.com/innovation
or call us at 1-800-477-6473 ext. 4700

Upcoming Progress Related Events

There are always Webinars going on with Progress and their other companies (Sonic, RealTime, etc). Now that we have an ORPUG Google Calendar, I'm going to try to keep that updated with these events as I find out about them. If you look down the right side of this blog you'll see a little Google calendar. Click on any one of the events listed and you'll see what webinars are coming up. Here's a quick list:

• Wed, Aug. 23rd. Stylus Studio webinar. 5am and 11am (both times PST).
• Thu, Aug. 31st. SOA webinar.
• Wed, Sep. 13th. OE10 Database Improvements webinar

If you hear of something I haven't listed, please let me know and I'll make sure others know about it.

Also, Oct 22-26 is the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) Conference which will be held here in Portland. At that conference Ken Rugg, vice president of products for Progress Software’s DataXtend®
and ObjectStore® product lines, will join a panel discussing "Objects
and Databases: State of the Union in 2006."

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Next Pub Gathering

Update 8/21/06: We will be meeting at Chili's at the 217-I5 interchange [map]. Hope to see you there!


Thursday August 24th, 4:30pm - ???. I'm leaning towards Chili's, though not sure which one. There's one at 217 & I-5, but the one I frequent is off Sunset at Bethany (just west of Murray and 217). Thursday's they have pints of microbrew for $2.50 (happy hour). They also have great food, lots of good happy hour food for $3.00.

How does this sound to everyone? Please email me and let me know if you plan on being there - and even if you don't, I need to know both ways so I can plan events that work best for everyone.

In October, Progress is planning another event like the Tech Peak they had several years ago, they are calling it a Road Show. They will be working closely with ORPUG to plan this event. From the agenda I've seen, it looks really good! I have told them while new stuff is always cool, a lot of people are still on v9, v8 and a few earlier versions - our members want to know things that can benefit them regardless of versions. I have also told them one of the main reasons for NOT upgrading to v10 is the licensing issues. Once they get an agenda finalized, they will mail out info to everyone, and I'll post it here on the blog.

Hope everyone is doing well and look forward to seeing you on August 24th!

Rich Uchytil