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My work involves dealings with the Australian
National Electricity Market, and our Marketing team at Macquarie
Generation require up to date reliable information 24 * 7.
I have been able to provide this over a period of several
years thanks to Powerbuilder. I owe my career to this product.
Thankyou. |
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I think Powerbuilder is a excellent product.
Even though PB has not made any changes in the last 3 orr
4 years that have help me much, I have been able to continue
producing great programs that complete very well against my
web based competition. But I think Sybase needs to deliver
improvements soon. So I am looking forward to the new PB look
& the integration with .NET. |
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Make sure Appeon stays aligned with the
changes made in PowerBuilder. |
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after 10 years of using PB i have taken
my first classes. It's amaizing how much there is to the product.
We intend to increase our use of PB because of it's ability
to multi-deploy. We can have clientserver apps and web apps
from the same development efforts. Clientserver is alive and
well out here. Your first question is presuming that PB is
obsolete. I've had PB since v2 I have never seen a product
progressivly enhanced thru so many industry changes. It's
technology has been updated from a simple clientserver development
tool to OO and now sophisticated web support. PB is Sybases
best kept secret. (there marketing department needs to wake
up!) |
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Its a great product but is not marketed
well. |
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We are fairly comfortable with how Powerbuilder
works and meets our needs. Our biggest problem is finding
developers in our area. And your market strength, seems to
be dwindling, so we have moved to a C++ environment. |
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For the improvements above, here is my
priority: 1) .NET 2) GUI 3) PowerScript 4) XML 5) Web Services
6) NVUO |
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pb was great for its time, but mergersacquisitions,
lack of technical focusclarity, have caused us to go find
other options long ago for new apps. doubtful we will ever
return to pb, though never say never |
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The best tool out there, but quickly
losing market share. |
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PB is still the best development environment
that I have ever worked with! I now do class ASP and .NET,
night and day difference as with the newer technologies it
hard to do things in a standardized fashion as there is 1000000's
of way to accomplish a task! Think about it ASP ASP.0, Javascript,
Ajax, HTML, C#, StoredProcedures, and each of these technologies
have a HUGE breadth. It's takes forever to learn the new technologies
and by the time you do learn it there is a newer version that
is different! Oh I miss the day of setting a transaction object
and performing a dw_1.Retrieve()! |
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Version 9.xx is buggy |
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PB Datawindow still crushes all other
objects for complex reporting. Fast, flexible and easiest
build wSQL back end. If PB does not integrate well with Web
in future then maybe, maybe, maybe we might look into EclipseBIRT
to replace it. |
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The best web & CS tool |
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PB is way too far behind on the technology
curve as well as the GUI curve. Customer demand has necessitated
us migrating to VS2005. |
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Mixed feelings about PB. On the one hand
no one comes close to its RAD capabilities, ease-of-use, and
almost bugfree apps that can be created with it. But its inablility
to be fully integrated with .NET is a major drawback. Back
in the old days, PB kept lockstep with Microsoft technologies.
But starting with the the COM revolution it got left behind.
So we have been converting to .NET for some time. |
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Market forces are a greater determinant
in our direction of which tools to use than actual functionality.
I hate trying to get dot net datagrids to give me the functionality
I have had for years with Powerbuilder. |
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1. PB is sometimes crashing out of sudden
especially when it has been running for a while or to click
'Hideshow prototype to see arguments in functions and so on.
It causes bigsmall loss of programming changes. This is the
major drawback in working wPB. We can's save changes every
minute. 2. As we plan to develop web application in near future,
we need good reference to look at. How can we get that? |
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I think you are falling behind in the
graphical UI department. It has been requested for years,
but you still can't drop a transparent object (static text,
group box, etc.) onto a window. So, trying to create a look
like gradient windows or any of the fancier looks is very
difficult. Please spend some time giving us controls with
more functionality. |
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The Webservice support for .net 2 will
be important for our team. PBDOM xml needs to be able to create
a xml output other than a file. A blob or string is necessary.
FILE IO is a show stopper. We use uNoksoft XML parser and
not PBDOM. As far as development goes, our team is growing
and Major Application Sections will be written with PB. |
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I wish Sybase would add resources to
the development and marketing of PB. |
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It would be really nice to have PB objects
and components compile to MSIL. More to the point: a true
PB.NET"." |
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We are interested in PowerBuilder's evolution
and their marketing plan to sell this product in the future. |
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I still love the tool - but the marketing
hasn't gone so well in Sybase. Our company is large and an
enterprise-wide initiative has forced us to replace all existing
PB apps with J2EE JAVA applications (browser-based). |
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Very productive tool, that would be improved
by further integration with .Net framework and servers |
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Sometimes too many GPF's occur during
developmentdeployment without any clear indication of the
source of the problem. I wish PB was as stable as Visual Studio.
It would be good for PB to (not necessarily in order of importance):
1. implement resizing of controls at design-time on an object
to which they are attached when the object is resized 2. reflect,
at design-time, visual attribute changes on visual custom
objects at design time. 3. re-implement the proxy object.
4. have an in-built resource manager for images, sound files,
etc. This would take away a lot of frustration when deploying
a project and you want to organize resource in different folders.
Regards. |
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Very good tools for what it does. Unfortunately
the market is driving us to open source web developement. |
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PB server as a RAD tool. It can be improved,
but if it was perfect Microsoft would buy it. |
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Powerbuilder serves our clientserver
application excellently. It is an excellent rapid applications
development and OOP develpment tool. On technology enhancement,
additional XML enhancement could serve us well, including
WEB Services integration. Note that we are an EAServer user
developing those applications in JAVA, but using some components
from the PB clientserver interface. |
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Given a knowledgeable PowerBuilder developer,
a clientserver application can be created quicker and with
the most features compared to any other clientserver development
tool available. The key is to find somebody who has good programming
techniques and understands the concept of modularity and object
oriented design within their applications. |
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Although I am only maintaining old applications
written in powerbuilder I still believe that it is a very
good tool. Currently our department buys already developed
applications so we are no longer doing our own development
except using the tools provided with the purchased package. |
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PowerBuilder is the most productive application
development tool I have used in my 25 years of programming |
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I personally enjoy working in Powerbuilder
and have for 10 years. However, our company has a very small
IT shop and has decided to go .NET. I hope to investigate
the possibility of using DataWindow.NET but have not yet done
so. |
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I have been developing apps with PB since
version 3.0 and have made a good living using PB. It would
be really nice if Sybase would work on getting the platform
really stable instead of changing icons on the ide and calling
it a new release. Granted Sybase has incorporated a lot of
new features and functionality but every contract that I have
been on and working with PB the standard answer when something
occurs thats just Powerbuilder"" |
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KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. LONG LIVE POWERBUILDER.
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Using it for 8 years, still learning
its features. |
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Best RAD I ever worked with. |
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Moving off PB and moving to .NET |
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Unfortunately, PB didn't make it. It
will slowly be vanished and replaced by fat on the market"
technologies. PB is now a niche, which poses risk to large
enterprize developments." |
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PowerBuilder will be more dead than it
is now. |
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PowerBuilder is the best tool in it's
class. |
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We love PowerBuilder. It has served our
organization very well. We are considering expanding our use
of the product in other divisions of our company. However,
there are two areas that are really hurting us that I'd like
to mention: 1. Your lack of marketing for PowerBuilder creates
huge problems for us in terms of recruiting as well as our
customers' perception of our technology. I'm getting tired
of defending Sybase and your products to the community. You
need to take responsibility for getting your success stories
out there. 2. Since you wrote your own memory manager (after
PB7), our customers have struggled mightily in terms of memory
consumption. You create an object then destroy it, you don't
get your memory back. You introduced PB_POOL_THRESHOLD environment
variable for backwards compatibility with your old memory
manager but from what we can tell, it doesn't work. You really,
really need to fix this. If we destroy an object, we need
the capability of getting the memory back immediately. Please,
please fix this. |
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PB is probably the most powerful language
out there. It is sad that they are letting Microsoft squash
them. We switched to C# for new development mainly because
we needed grid tools PB was not providing. But everything
takes so much longer! |
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Our primary goal in 2006 will be to deploy
the Russian version of our primary billing application in
Russia. PB 10 provided the Unicode support to convert our
program from a single language to a multi-linqual application
and, at the moment, we have no plans to develop any Web apps
using PB (we currently use ASP for all of our web programming). |
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The company is split into two divisions.
These answers are from just my division. The other division
has more developers and will be sending you there information. |
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If only we can convert PB apps and not
tie them to EA Server, it will be great. |
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I wonder what the future of PowerBuilder
would be if it was moved to open source. As it is, my current
client is migrating away from it :( |
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Go .NET or bust! |
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Poor Sybase has never attempted to even
market PowerBuilder. What a shame that such a good development
tool, hasn't had any marketing in years. |
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The Marmeting group at Sybase need to
seriously market PB10g in a better way than earlier. PB lost
its charm after Poersoft sold the company, mainly because
of marketing! And eventually the developer community was hit.
Bad marketing shopuld not cause harm to Developer Community.
Sybase corporation is also hit by this bad marketing in the
past. |
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Needs good marketing. PB would have been
no 1 tool, if Microsoft had bought! |
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PB is not very popular in Quebec. |
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The development evironment can be unstable
if the target is tool large. Also the handling of Window GUI
objects can be trouble some to handle. I like the tight" integration
with Oracle database" |
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If it works, and from what I hear it
does, I don't understand why they don't push APPEON more.
We're almost afraid to touch it, even though it could help
us, because lack of marketing translates to lack of confidence.
What is up with their MARKETING? Powerbuilder is a great product,
but they hide it under a bush. |
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Final Exe build size reduction or run
time library avaialability on th web like Java run time when
the user clicks on a PB app. Better integration woth PLSQL
(like creating a dw based on a ref cursor (out) etc) Better
UNICODE support for multi-lingula apps |
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Would like to hear more information about
the future and what is new with powerbuilder. |
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Powerbuilder is good programming language
and should be marketed more aggressively. |
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Powerbuilder is great, but I wish that
Sybase would aggressively market it, because as a developer
it is hard to find work as a PB developer; most companies
have never heard of it, and it makes it hard to stay excited
about the long term prospects of being a PB developer! |
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I am the only application developer in
my company that still uses Powerbuilder. Microsoft .Net is
now the preferred software of choice. I will be maintaining
current applications in Powerbuilder only. |
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Due to the lack of linux support, we
plan on moving to the Eiffel development environment. |
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Deleting ancestor menu items is still
a pain in the butt. Why doesn't the PFC ever evolve? |
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To improve PB's acceptance as a development
tool, Sybase needs to try mainstreaming this product. Push
universities to use PB to teach Object Oriented Programing
concepts. |
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GUI of developed programs could use updating.
Tighter integration with .NET (NOT just DataWindow .NET).
More programming like useage--less dependence on objects in
design environment. Creation of a variable for a menu associated
with a Window to allow manipulation versus manipulation of
the ONE created. |
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We are waiting for PowerBuilder 10.5
to be released. We hope that Sybase will keep the promise
to implement Web Service Proxy Client with digital cert. |
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I really loved Powerbuilder as a development
tool, unfortunately as a consultant, my clients, if they even
use Powerbuilder, only use it for exisitngmaintaining applications,
not new development. To have a more advancing career and not
be stuck in maintenance mood, I have needed to focus my skills
towards other development tools just as .Net. I would love
Powerbuilder to have a strong comeback some day. |
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Improve stability and reliability |
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I have earned my bread and butter being
a Powerbuilder Developer for 10 years. I am indebted to Powerbuilder.
It is such a great user friendly tool. |
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PowerBuilder is definitely a nice tool
to work with DataBasee. But when it comes to the matter of
developing Web based applications it lacks a bit compare to
giants like Java and .Net. I personally except some more advanced
features in powerbuilder as far as Web based applications
are concerned. |
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PB is a strong tool, we hope it continues
to survive. .Net support is a non issue for us. Java and PHP
support as well as Linux is important. |
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PB 10 very unstable |
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Sybase devrait faire plus d’efforts pour
supporter PowerBuiler en France. En tant que développeur PowerBuilder
nous voulons plus de support en français (informations techniques,
forums, formations...), plus de communication autour de PowerBuilder
(conférences, informations et même publicités…) pour dynamiser
le marché du développement sous PowerBuilder. |
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I think Powerbuilder will become a no
longer used product unless Sybase concentrates on two things:
1. Ability to transparently move an existing Application to
the web. 2. Do a better job at Marketing, I never hear much
about activities concerning Powerbuilder, at least in Houston.
Must a forgotten city. |
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Falta mejorar la parte de desarrollo
web |
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PB while once an excellent product has
fallen so far behind the times it is virtually useless. PB
9.0 is so buggy and crashes so often it is extrememly frustrating
to use. All of his can't wait till we migrate all of our apps
to .NET. |
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Powerbuilder is becoming the Legacy tool. |
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Product advt is required |
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PB is excellent product for client-server.
Still not there to my liking for web apps, and I'm quite concerned
that it never will be. DW.net (v1.5) is so full of holes and
has such a ludicrous amount of overhead (including the temporary
files created on the server that don't ever get cleaned up).
I had a simple one-page app that took an awful lot of workarounds
just to get running. So many, that I abandoned dw.net and
went back to Cold Fusion. |
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A very flexible tool with a moderate
to easy learning curve for building interesting, detailed
and functional Client Server applications and Web Reports. |
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We have had great success using Appeon
to convert our PB applications to run on the Web! |
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Though PowerBuilder has been and still
is the best RAD tool, it's marketing has been very poor. Current
trend has been towards maintaining existing applications and
moving out to microsoft tools. A better Marketing strategy
is a must for PowerBuilder to survive. |
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Sybase needs to be leading the curve
with PowerBuilder in technology NOT following it. They need
to make it a strategic advantage to use PowerBuilder over
.NET otherwise, why use PowerBuilder since we now have DW
.NET. |
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Will PB 11's C# emitter save PowerBuilder
from the clientserver graveyard? That is the question. The
ability to easily integrate existing PB code with C# will
be a major determining factor for us. |
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Still an outstanding and productive tool.
Too bad it's also one of computing's most misused tools. There
is a lot of horrible PowerBuilder code out there. |
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There's nothing particularly wrong with
the product - but I NEVER see any marketing for it.... |
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We use Appeon for PowerBuilder for Web
Enablement and new Web Development. |
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Mgt here is sold on Microsoft .Net so
it is a challenge to get them to even upgrade our PB version
as we've been stuck on PB7 for yrs. |
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Need ability to generate nonvisual service
objects in .Net ASAP. Don't want to wait for full visual .net
implementation. |
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Love using Powerbuilder, just sad that
management does not see how valuable it is. We will still
be using it for at least the next 2 years, but after that,
who knows? |
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Please improve client-server functionalities
and minimize web integration development |
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Powerbuilder foundation classes has to
be documented and to be made more structured like .net classes.
PB also should give us the opportunity to write classes and
thereby GUI's will be generated. In a one page all GUI script
classes should be displayed. this makes classes to be read
in original way. |
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Web development should be user friendly
and should support IIS web deployement with datawindow compatibility. |
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I've been laid off from (PB) work because
my ex-company decided to outsourced software development to
India. |
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There never was anything quite like PowerBuilder
a decade ago and there is nothing quite like it even today.
Web DataWindow is an excellent technology that needs to further
include all native client DW functionality by supporting other
events and user defined buttons. |
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Powerbuilder has been a stable development
evironment for years. I would like to use .NET but still use
PowerScript to access all the .NET api call. |
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Sybase takes too long to deliver for
the developers. You can spot a PowerBuilder 10.5 Application
from the International Space Station. We're leaving PowerBuilder
for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Sybase has run the product
into the ground. |
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Well, I love working with powerbuilder
in the past 4 years, but when I know about .Net, I said to
myself, Microsoft will any other competitor in the same intrest,
like PB, Flash (with xaml) ... Unless they struggle to keep
their market boundry, for my opinion Datawindow.net was a
succesful move from sybase, but there are may area need evolving
... Thanks and best regards |
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Great tool to help application building. |
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Though PB is a powerful tool, Why is
n't so popular as other tools? |
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PB is the best Windows development tool
still. But it is not a preferred web development platform.
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We missed the web curve ! We are about
missing the mobile curve with PKB too... Still waiting for
the .NET integration. And many customers are migrating to
Java. It's high time that Sybase fought back in PB... |
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Enjoy working with the product. |
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Make the license less expensive. |
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It is behind in the visual presentation
for menus, tabs and graphs. |
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In my opinion, PowerBuilder is still
a strong development tool. However, Sybase hurt the product
some years ago when it attempted to concentrate on consulting
instead of improving the product. I would love to see a stronger
push by the company to market it's multi-platform development
abilities. In the industry, PowerBuilder is seen as a dying
development tool and not a growing one. I don't know if this
perspective can be reversed. |
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Estoy interesado en conocer e interartuar
con el desarrolo de aolicaciones en powerbuilder, si me pueden
hacr llegar una licencia demo y alguns ejemplos para desarrollarlos
y poder visualizar la funcionalidad de la herramienta. Muchas
gracias por su colaboracion. Alvaro Montoya C. amontoya@comfama.com.co |
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Needs an overhaul in several areas. For
instance, debugging (data windows especially). Another: Why
do PBDs exist? In the presence of source control systems,
they have no positive function at all. |
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PB definetely, great RAD tool to work
with, stands tall from a developer prespective (atleast for
me), but couldn't impress my clients. everybody knows VB is,
when I say PB, soon the question arises, what is PB ? nowadays
most of developers are moving out of PB, and hard to find
a good PB resource. |
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We are not getting PB material (like
PB Books etc...) |
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Marketing by Sybase required more. |
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I love PB and support it for more than
10 years. I also love PFC. That's why I want you to change
your mind about PFC open source support. It is not only a
script library but also proves the power of PowerBuilder and
Datawindow. Thanks. |
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PowerBuilder needs the following: Rich
text edit style for datawindows. Fade and blend effects for
all objects datawindow controls. Ability to create polygons
in datawindows. If it had the above, I would give it a 10
instead of an 8! |
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need stronger emphasis on Java support
(over .NET) + better graphics and stronger, more consistent
internationalisation support (right-to-left, mirroring, fonts,
calendar) alongside Unicode |
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No comments this year ! So far so good
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My life would be miserable without the
datawindow :) |
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PB is a strong tool, wishes more people
would use it instead of .net |
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Hope one day Multilingual ascpect will
be within powerbuilder (actualy we use the Translation tool
kit, but the tool is not good enough for a big application).
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Datawindow (XML) improvements |
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While I still have a high regard for
core (client-server) PB functionality, it has never convinced
with its wider offerings. While I am sad to give it up personally,
it is losing ground in my company and I think it's best hope
is in .NET integration. |
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On moving from PB 6.5 to 9, mostly it
has been a major improvement, but there are some let-downs.
When an object goes from invisible to visible, it is now disabled,
for example. Also some things are hard to find. |
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I love PB so much that, I just hate to
code with other tools! |
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During our 5 years of development in
Powerbuilder, we have have repeatly come up againest Flaws,
issues or restrictions placed on us by Powerbuilder. The IDE
has proven to be unstable, and we've suffered countless times
from our Application behaving differently when compiled to
when its tested from within the IDE. |
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Goodbye PowerBuilder... you are clinging
on for dear life, but your nails are slipping towards the
edge. It's been a ride. You won't be missed. FATAL ERROR!
Powerbuilder will now close. |
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I am leaving this company to become consulting
independent. |
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We have now used PB since 1993 and are
very pleased. The best tool in the world. |
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Please focus on the desktop capabilities
and forget about all this WEB stuff (except the internetResult
object). In my company we use PowerBuilder as a thin client
communicationg to a WEB server via the internetResult object,
and it works just great. |
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Lot of bugs ... |
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I would like know all on integration
of PB and Web. |
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Mostly using Powerbuilder for our older
clientserver legacy systems. |
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The world has become very confusing with
all sorts of web technologies. Gotta be web enabled! Why?
Whats wrong with standard client server? We have built large
bespoke long standing client-server applications that are
ever growing. The paranoia about moving to web" can have a
very negative impact on an otherwise very viable standard
client server application. Moving to EAServer just seems like
more complexity of the environment." |
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Needs money, resources, marketing. Needs
money, resources, marketing. Needs money, resources, marketing.
Needs money, resources, marketing.... |
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First off, please do not drop support
of PowerBuilder, I still believe that it is the best client-server
application development environment around. Even .NET does
not compare. On that note, I think improvements in it's integration
with other tools and also low-level enhancements (like user
defined enumerations, and possibly also bit level operations)
would be very beneficial. Recently, I had to implement the
AES encryption algorythm for a client, and had no choice but
to resort to using Visual C++ to implement a DLL for external
calling by PB because PB could not run the algorythm fast
enough because of the lack of bitwise manipulations in PB.
We love the datawindow here, there is nothing better. The
.NET datagrid simply does not compare, and any improvements
to the datawindow.net control would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks |
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Need better graphing, especially ability
to choose color order of linesseries. Ability to write to
pdf without ghostscript third party tool. Even better, ability
to export reports to MS Word. |
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PowerBuilder is rapidly losing it's appeal.
Microsoft .NET is the better tool and priced correctly. Sybase
continues to do a poor job in pricing and marketing it's product.
In addition, PowerBuilder developers are hard to find, which
makes the product less appealing. |
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From the point of marketing, Sybase didn't
bother to market a good product, instead focusing on mobile
wireless computing. |
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Powerbuilder is dying a slow death due
to Sybase's failure to market the product. Sybase apparently
sees integration with Microsoft as a way to enhance the product,
but beta testers do not concur. PowerBuilder 10.5 is weak
to say the least, doesn't have significant upgrades, and is
like PB10, very little for most customers to choose from.
Like General Motors, PowerBuilder's demise is inevitable UNLESS
Sybase actually puts some effort into improving the product.
While PB still is the best and most enjoyable development
tool to use, it definitely needs a major overhaul to get it
back to the top or even into contention again. |
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With Windows Vista just around the corner,
PowerBuilder should be planning right now, to prevent a repeat
with what happend with Windows XP. |
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powerbuilder is great..! |
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There should be a better plan towards
the future. The talk abould discontinuation gets very annoying.
A decision to stop or to continue makes is a lot easier to
plan for the future. |
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More stability of PB is requestednecessary! |
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PowerBuilder has great potential but
suffers from strange marketing decisions like the ones about
distributed componants, added, removed, replaced by another
solutions with costs... Sybase should listen more to PB devs,
who keeps PB alive and adress old knowns bugs an irregularities
in PB. |
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We need urgently connection from PocketBuilder
to MSSQLServer!!! It would also help to have direct connection
to EA Server. |
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Problems with components in EAServer
when using database access should be solved. The alternative
is bind the object to one CPU ans ocassionally fails. |
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We are missing a 'indenter' for script:
after copiing script fro another script, we need to reindenter
the whole script |
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PB 9.0 build 8565, no es una versión
estable se cae continuamente, la integración con SCC, es compleja. |
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Marketing should be strenghen,I can not
say more,powerbuilder marketing is a mess, we hope sybase
take the dealership from BlueExpress，and more free
trainning should be offered |
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Long Life to PB! |
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For a while, I was worried PB was fading
away. Now, I use it at work, I contract using it, and I'm
writing my own software with it. PB10.5 enhancements are exciting,
but PB11 looks to be AWESOME. Anything Sybase can do to allow
me to program in PB but distribute it in various ways is appreciated.
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It is still the most comprehensive and
productive tool for developing CS applications and can be
a wonderful tool for developing web applications regardless
of which web architecture is employed....what is seriously
missing is a push from Sybase regarding marketing and resources. |
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Starting working with WebDataWindowControl
(using ASP.NET and DataWindow.NET 1.5), I was disappointed
how many limitation it has: no Filtering, no SaveAs, no most
of events and functions, no movingspreading capabilities for
columns of Grid style, etc. If .NET compatible version of
PB have similar limitations, it won't be that we all are waiting... |
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Long term utilisation of PowerBuilder
really dependant on roadmap for development, and integration
with .net to allow reuse of components between our .net applications,
plus how long is sybase going to be committed to supporting
conventional client-server development on powerbuilder? |
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I just love PB. It's the best language
I've used in all my 30 years of programming. |
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1)There remains so many bugs in new release.
2)Intellisense should be there in development user interface.
3)Powerbuilder should be able to create .net assembly. 4)Very
tight integration with .NET 2.0 is needed. |
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For PBNI, please add Borlanc C++ builerDelphi
interface. |
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PB has to improve the IDE environment,
especially on the autoscripts, which .NET has offer, that
will further cut down the development time. Datawindow report
painter (design environment) also need to be improved to suppose
guidelines. |
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Less docbooksguidetutorialhelpexampleconsultant
on PB's 3 tier application development. PB <--> EAServer.
Extreamly less info on PBWF (PowerBuilder Web Framework). |
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In our country, have problem with book
translate to Indonesian language. So, it is make we have a
problem for new skill for HOW TO with new PB (for instan ;
i donk know develope application wit PB 6 or more becouse
i have no reference to guide me for it) |
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PB is best for Client server based application
but not for web based. There are a lot area where PB can be
enhanced specially for web based application. So try to look
from web point of view. Hopefully we can use PB for web based
application development, if PB can provide us good web based
solution. Best of luck. |
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Please not too much using resources |
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Added in example code : - smart-card
- barcode - RFID - RS-232 - UTP etc. |
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option to formatted report to text file,
to export formatted report to excel and lots of other queries |
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option to formatted report to text file,
to export formatted report to excel and lots of other queries |
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Marketing of PowerBuilder should be developed. |
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I really like working with PB, but I
don't see many companies going for it in present times. I
think Sybase should market PB aggressively and improve it
to bring back the lost glory, once it had in Client Server
applications and also incorporate the multi tier technologies
to make it compete against other tools like .NET and J2EE |
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Please promote more of PB. You should
market it well. Ideal target are companies moving towards
.Net. Sell and promote the .Net related features of PB |
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It is good tool for data centric application
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Great software and improving. We use
it mostly for clientserver applications as it is most powerful
in that segment. Plan to use its web features in the near
future. |
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PB10 works differently under different
operating systems Example:- disabling fileds, hot keys doesnt
work properly under XP. where as PB9 works fine. I observe
some features which are useful in earlier versions are not
supported by earlier versions, I feel that should not be the
way if I am right. It should be robust and versatile too.
Thank You Best Regards Gopal |
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PB was such nice front end GUI tool for
rapid application development, but due to lack of support
and marketting, PB is now almost out of market or no new prokects
are comming in PB, whatever existing projects are there, even
companies are thinking of migration to some other technology,
at least this is the situation in INDIA. |
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Market it properly |
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I have worked on almost all the version
of PB and regard it the most user friendly. Sybase definately
needs to look at enhancing its capabilities so that it can
stand a chance against technologies which are more suited
for WEB development. |
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THis is the the Best tool I ever worked
on for the database applications |
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PowerBuilder is still the best for clientserver
and desktop applications and maybe at par with other tools
in Web applications. More POWER to the PowerBuilder team... |
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We really hope that Sybase will make
DataWindow available in Java.. Not need to be full Java, .NET
way just nice. Doesnt to be full OOP. if Sybase not interested,
Sybase probably can lets others developers develop the client's
frontend tier . Well, dont mind if undisclosed licence was
used. Thanks |
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PB itself is not enough to respond today's
requirement anymore, unfortunatelly. |
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PowerBuilder,good tools |
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Provide a flexible things to develope
web application instead of complicated. |
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too late .... |
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Please bring the Linux version soon.
Otherwise u are dead. |
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Its a great tool to work in |
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PowerBuilder has no reliable supportive
sites or agents in our region - Middle East - Jordan. Alas,
it seems that it is not popular in this region. |
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The PB patches should pass QA before
sending them to the programmers |
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Please work on this .NET integration,
in order to prevent many PB developers from switching to .NET |
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Any plans to bundle EA Server and Data
Window.net in later versions at about the same price? |
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Very stable tool. We could able to code
all our applications and reports with PB. No drastic change
like what happen to VB (to .Net) users. |
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Technically it's a great product which
allows a very speedy delivery. But it's positioned more as
a legacy product in the market, and therefore sadly less and
less new development is done with PB. |
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i like pb |
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PB is a great development environment
and Sybase continues to keep improving its feature set. However,
it would be nice to see its share of the market grow a bit. |
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PowerBuilder is ok, IDE is too unstable.
Datawindow.NET looks great but doesn't support browsers other
than IE very well. |
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It would be great if the .NET integration
was delivered earlier than expected. |
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We migrated to v9 expecting big things
in Web Services and .net integration. PB could not deal with
quite simple Web Services and the .net integration was a marketing
lie (use Web Services!). That did it for us - we're telling
customers to get off it - no future. |
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I think that Powerbuilders environment
(ability to handle many objects - regeneration etc) and difficulty
to develop complex code structures (complex OO code structures)
is letting it down in the market today. Being able to integrate
with other languages such as .NET or Java is great but the
complexities of maintaining code in this situation makes it
a difficult sell. |
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After 10 years of using PB intensively
I have come across many PB fickle bugs, and some limitations.
PB was previously 'the' software to use, however now jobs
are becoming limited. |
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Have used PB since version 4 and absolutely
love it. |
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No support means time to look elsewhere |
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Powerbuilder releases need to be more
stable when integrated with source control software and work
tracking software like Serena Tracker and Version Manager.
OR A Powerbuilder do not do list" needs to be released with
the software if scenarios are known to cause PB to become
unstable and crash. PB10 seems to crash several times a day
for developers who are devoting all their time to coding within
the IDE throughout the day and the loss of their work and
train of thought in the last few minutes is frustrating." |
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We have used PB since 1992 & been developing
Web applications since 1997. The only real issue we have is
in delivering reports via PDF to the browser. The Ghost method
as documented is far too complicated there should be a native
saveaspdf function that doesn't require additional software
and complex code to get it to work. |
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light! light! light! |
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Powerbuilder is excellent, it's only
problem is bad marketing. |
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Large legacy apps keep us aligned with
PB. Retraining and re-developing are not practical for us.
We hope Sybase keeps supporting and improving PB with an eye
to backwards compatibility. |
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We need more visual improvements in pb.
and supports to the earlier versions like PB.6x |
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PB has lost so much market with .net
and Java. PB used to have a stronger precense in the market
4 years ago. Now, we can see that PB is lossing market gradually.
Not sure what Sybase is doing regarding this. |
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we recruit VB progemmers and introduce
them to PB. After that, except for financial gains, these
programmers don't want to work with VB. Because, PB is very
simple yet powerful. For Business Informtion Systems such
as Integrated Accounting Packages, ERPs, Warehouse/ Logistics/
CRM/ HRM & Payroll Systems, and any other complex software
development project, we think an Object- orientd tool which
could be easily learnt, using the simpler language BASIC,
is very important. PowerBuilder suits us very well. Infact,
we a company which develops both standard products and custom-built
application-software find that along with the PowerDesigner
tools, PB and Sybase ASA gives so much of flexibility and
creative solution development power. Problems we face are,
due to lack of marketing, the market is forgetting this company
(Sybase) and its tools. Its becoming more and more difficult
to convince new customers with these technologies, because,
they look for the technologies as well. Further, the developer
community also should be trained, may be even free, so that
the followers of these technologies can increse in number.
Look at the folowing the Free Linux is getting. |
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Dw is its strength. Keep loading / enhancing
this painter. |
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Limited PowerBuilder resources avalliable
in the market. |
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In my openion, only Marketing is a different
between Power Biulder and Microsoft product. PB is better
than Microsoft products, but PB is not market in Pakistan/
Asia, it makes difference. |
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PB is a very RAD and helpful tool. Some
internal issues, if removed, will lead it to more stable tool.
There is room for enhancements as far as scripting is concerned,
integration with other tools and deployment options. |
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A product which should be ranked foremost
for its simple and easy interface and working but with tremendous
application processing power. Keep up the good work, people. |
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It's a rapid development tool but nt
able to collect more manpower on it due to popularity of .Net
Application |
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PowerBuilder has lost too much ground
to products which are now more widely accepted. It is now
viewed by both us and our clients as a legacy product which
will be phased out as applications require major enhancements.
Very disappointing that Sybase has facilitated this by a lack
of marketing and vision of the future. |
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related to DB you are Strongly,graphic
and web should improve |
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i think pb is best database realated
application development tool better then any microsoft product
in that field. the only thing that lack its future development
is lack of marketing statergy from sybase . i think if it
was microsoft powerbuilder then it would have been more popular
then any other database realated application development tool. |
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I wish PB had the OS support(like VB
has windows) then it would have been a more popular |
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Need proper notes. For example to save
a blob object we have no proper notes. Support is important. |
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GrapHIC sql building should be improved
to allow more compleX sql queries |
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I love working in powerbuilder and its
scope should be grown furhter. |
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