Enquête Mondiale PowerBuilder 2008 - 1er résultats

Merci d'avoir participé à notre enquête PowerBuilder 2008

Vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu des premiers résultats et les commentaires des participants.

Premiers résultats 2008

  1/ Combien de temps PowerBuilder sera-t-il encore utilisé dans votre société ?

  2/ En 2008, vous utiliserez PowerBuilder pour : Développer de nouvelles applications - Maintenir des applications existantes - Les deux ?

 3/ Combien de développeurs utiliseront PowerBuilder dans votre société en 2008 ? (environ)

 4/ Quelle version de PowerBuilder utilisez-vous actuellement ?

 5/ Prévoyez-vous de migrer vers une version plus récente de PowerBuilder en 2008 ?

 6/ Base de données

  - Quel SGBD/R utilisez-vous ?

  - Vos applications incluent-elles des procédures stockées ?

 7/ Utilisez-vous PocketBuilder pour développer vos applications Mobiles ?

 8/ PowerBuilder et .NET

- Utilisez-vous DataWindow .NET pour développer vos applications .NET ?

- Prévoyez-vous de générer des applications .NET à partir du code PB ?

 9/ Votre application est-elle multilingue ?

 10/ Quelles autres technologies sont (ou seront) utilisées dans votre société ?

 11/ Quelles améliorations attendez-vous le plus ?

 12/ En tant que développeur, quelle est votre opinion sur PowerBuilder ?

13/ Commentaires :

Hi, I believe PB is a good product, is to costly for new developer to start up with PB. Why not try like Oracle, give full support to new developer to explore their biz idea via PB. TQ
- The resulting application should look modern without any 3rd party tools/utilities - Easy www-development/implementation (N.B. new to this)
* que sea orientado mas a web. talvez algun modulo. * que pueda trabajar en cualquier sistema operativo.
.Net WinForms in PB 11 offers no advantages and has many dis-advantages, such as memory and installation footprint, contains unmanaged code, does not run in 64 bit mode, existing applications need major re-write to deploy as winform. If not improved, will stop using PB in (rel 12) timeframe
"PowerBuilder is a diamond sold like coal. Competitor products are coal, but they promise diamonds out of it - Suresh Thoduvail\" I have worked for 10 years in PB from ver 4.00 to 10.5 & made money. here is my 2 cents back: 1. Commission books when you release new versions. 2. Provide documentation & support for new versions(for eg: for depoloying into Dot net web form, setpointer not supported in existing applications, then what do we use instead of this function. When you say not supported, then provide alternative).
1 - PB is more graphic and more astable and easy than any DB development tool in market such as oracle and ADO .net and Java and so on, and what will happen if PB compete Java and .net in more graphic and more pure object oriented code and good editor such as C# 2008 or netbeen6.1 i think that it will be the most tool will be used for world
1. GUI interface that one can develop using PB and its native controls is still very poor, non modern and actaully not useful. (I know, there is a chance to use PB native interface...) 2. Automatic pop-up for autocomplete when writing scripts is very poor and slow (but better than in earlier versions)
1. recomendaria que en PB se incluya un buscador de objetos POR NOMBRE, ya que cuandola aplicacion contiene demasiadas librerias y objetos es tedioso tener que recordar en que libreria se encuentra guardado un determinado objeto. 2. Recomiendo que cuando sea guardado un objeto el PB no lo permita, si en la aplicacion ya existiera otro objeto con el mismo nombre, debido a que esto genera una ambiguedad al compilador del PB
1. recomendaria que en PB se incluya un buscador de objetos POR NOMBRE, ya que cuandola aplicacion contiene demasiadas librerias y objetos es tedioso tener que recordar en que libreria se encuentra guardado un determinado objeto. 2. Recomiendo que cuando sea guardado un objeto el PB no lo permita, si en la aplicacion ya existiera otro objeto con el mismo nombre, debido a que esto genera una ambiguedad al compilador del PB
1. The IDE is unduly confining. I don't think it actually serves a purpose, and it prevents using so many standard tools (like, for instance, subversion, and all the other tools that process text). 2. The DW was great in 1995, but it's fallen way behind. It still does not have decent debugging or compile-time checking!
1. Your question 12 has a spelling error: Developer has one "p", not two. 2. One complaint I have with PB 9 is a GDI resources leak - happens consistently when Picture Button controls are used. Leaks about 3 resources with every Picture Button instantiated. Since I use a lot of them, for presentation of ICON selection, it very rapidly runs out and crashes (when the GDI reosurce count hits about 6000). (Win 2K Pro development environment) 3. Another concern is a lack of low level utility functions, (bit level). For example, there is no ability to do an XOR function, that I am aware of, except by direct manipulation of exponents of 2. I have mentioned this on previous surveys. 4. It appears to me that the provision now for some kind of Install Builder is worse than it was back in version 5.0! I would like to see a PB native App packager or install program, such that third party installers are not necessary. 5. Help File builder. It would be nice if PB could supply its own Help File compiler, either for Windows or for HTML or both. 6. Look and feel options are not really keeping up with the times, unless these have been improved in version 10 and 11, and it is me who is not keeping up with the times. 7. Rich Text Format control: has had a bug regarding margins control since verison 5 and it has never been fixed. (Sybase blames MS and MS says its not their problem.) In any case the margin settings cannot be managed by code, and they fail to save correctly at run time when set by the user. 8. A set of "Sybase approved" or supported, third party OCX/ActiveX controls would be extremely helpful. How about opening a website in which third party developers can register their products and provide support for PB developer wishing to user their controls. There might also be a relatively small set of core controls that PB could recommend or endorse for doing some important basic extensions of functionality such as: a) a Word Processing control b) a Spreadsheet control (I am using one called Formula One that is no longer available, but I have made substantial application feature developments with this control, integrating it with PB datawindows and retrieval and update functionality. ) c) an eMail control, for quick and easy eMail enabling of a PB app d) an HTML editor control, giving the user the ability to compose simple HTML material such as Help Files, etc. ( I have purchased such a control and am finding it helpful) e) a MAP control f) a drawing/charting control g) a Spell checking control h) a Bar Code reader/writer control The whole point of setting up such a website would be to encourage OCX/Active developers to see the PowerBuilder community as a good place to seek new customers.
10 ans de mariage avec PB, c\'est ce que nous appellons de la fidélité et nous croyons encore aux dix prochaines années d'une union profitable.
A lower price will allow many more people to use and accept PB technology. Access to PB Developer Network will allow many more people to learn how to develop PB Apps in Africa
A mi punto de vista PowerBuilder esta quedandose muy de lado con respecto a .Net y Java, etc, cosa que como persona que siempre usà productos Sybase me preocupa mucho... es por eso que decidí hacer un cambio en mi vida profesional hacia la Consultoría SAP que tiene mucho futuro por delante, es lamentable pues Sybase me parece muy bien, pero el mercado es el que manda. Deberían hacer algo para revertir esta situaciàn. Hablo básicamente del Mercado Peruano (soy peruano trabajé allí por 8 años) y el Mercado Español (Trabajé con Power Builder unos meses en Barcelona y las empresas tienden a migrar
A more stable IDE and Debugger would be extremly nice
A pesar de ser una excelente herramientas, no se difunde sus beneficios en .Net
A very productive tool to develop database based applications!
a).- Al renombrar un campo de una tabla, toda la aplicacion deberia renombrar el campo o variables relacionadas. b).-que incluyera un presentador de reportes (Datawindows) que permita agregar Datawindows a la base de datos(blob), leelos, cargarlos, presentar datos, que tenga menu para exportacion en diferentes formatos, y un controlador de versiones de los reportes. c).- Diagramacion integracion y relacional.
Accelerate!
Actualmente estoy aprendiendo EAServer para integrar mis aplicaciones a la web, usando las datawindow de las PBL, pero necesito mas informaciàn, alguna ayuda sobre esto ?
Actualmente trabajamos para HSBC Mexico, y creo que unicamente por cuestiones comerciales (no tecnologicas), HSBC toma la decision de descontinuar el uso de PowerBuilder para desarrollo de aplicaciones departamentales locales (5 - 30 usuarios), y pide la migracion de aplicaciones existentes en PB a Visual Studio 2005 de Microsoft, lo cual es una verdadera lástima...! Hoy ya domino VB.Net y no encuentro nada que haga VB.Net que PB no pueda hacer, mucho mejor y mas rápido. Insisto... que pena!
Al parecer .NET está ganando mercado ante Power Builder deberían estudiar ustedes por que puede ser, tal vez publicidad es una ...... Saludos
Although the product is very good, it lacks support in terms of marketing and promotions. I think giving training to upcoming developers, student community and special marketing schemes for new application areas could help improve the product positioning in the long run.
As a PB developer for almost 7 year, I can't see any future on PB. I dont see any new deveolpment project happening. There is only maintanance/support project are happening currently. I really love to work on a new PB development project.
As every year: Sybase please make life easier for companies which develop software with Sybase tools. Less and less customers know Sybase. They all say PowerBuilder is a dead approach. Marketing and marketing. Instead of to distrust your customers, please Sybase support them.
As my company is planning to migrate to Visual Studi 2005 in order to use .Net technology, I would like to know what will happen to Powerbuilder if most of the companies intend to migrate to .Net and they want to stop using PB.
As we have seen Powerbuilder goes straight ahead to .NET . I think this will be the point when we will change away from PB :-(( .
Au niveau de l'interface graphique, permettre d'obtenir la mÛme ergonomie (icônes, look, ..)que les versions de windows les plus récentes (vista, ..)
aun no tengo amplia experiencia. sugeriria me enviaran link para documentarme un poco mas sobre este sistema de desarrollo
Been really sad ever since Sybase missed the boat with PB 11. The exclusive tie-in to IE for web delivery killed what we were all waiting for: platform independent delivery of PB apps. Too bad, too, because there is still nothing like a DW out there in any other development environment. (Don't think so? Try updating only one column of the 20 your datagrid retrieved and verify that it hasn't been changed by someone else since retrieval WITHOUT writing code or an SP.) Maybe they can salvage something and provide a DW for Flex or Silverlight, and finally become cross-platform. Computerworld included PB in the "Top 10 dead or dying computer skills in 2007 (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9020942), and lists it as among the declining compensation skills this year. Why? "Can't deliver to the Web" is IMHO the biggest reason. You could qualify that with "Except on IE" or "Sure it can if you invest $30,000 in EA Server & platform for it" but face it, guys & gals, it's time to get on with it. If you're a PB developer, look hard at Flex. Cheap, powerful, essentially ubiquitous delivery, and it lets you do RAD almost as easily as PB. In the early days of PB, one could buy in to the development environment fairly inexpensively and start delivering apps. That built the base of developers and demand for the more powerful products. That hasn't been true of PB since EA Server became the "base" for delivering internet apps and cut out the small fry. The latest effort falls short. Too bad.
Best .Net RAD development tool in my opinion and the DB connectivity is next to none!
Best RAD Tool in market!!1
Better marketing of the product and keeping the developer community involved by organizing more seminars, code camps of the latest of powerbuilder coming out.
Biggest issue is that Sybase did not market it for so long. Now there are virtually no resources avaiable that will work using this language. It is either .Net or Java. We even have problems getting resources offshore to work in this language.
Bonjour, Actuellement jÆai commencé faire des recherches par rapport à la nouvelle version de PoweBuilder 11.x et EAServer. Actuellement je travaille avec PowerBuilder 8.0.3 et Oracle 9i (cÆest un système client/serveur). JÆaimerais savoir quelle version de PowerBuilder ce sera la meilleure pour moi. De plus jÆaimerais conna¯tre un peu plus par rapport au EAServer, comme je peux transformer mon système et sÆil est vraiment difficile de faire une migration de mes librairies PBL? Merci beaucoup et bonne journée, Andy Del Risco M. Analyste Programmeur
Buen paquete de desarrollo
bueno soy un programador de 3 años ya probe primero con visual basic, pero cuando conoci PB 9.0, me hizo un poco mas entendible la programacion orientda a objetos.. cabe señalar que a este software lo voy debiendo mucho mucho y estoy muy agradecido... les pido que en cada actualizacion lo hagan un poco menos vulnerable a los errores de compilacion y evite cerrar el diseño de la aplicacion asi drepente. muy agradecido de haber participado
Bueno, ya que me gusta trabajar sobre esta plataforma espero que la tendencia siga creciendo y renovándose. Gracias.. Saludos...!!!
bugs resolutions is getting really important
Can get unstable, specially with EAserver components.
Change of Rich Edit control from PB to third party was a disaster. Stuff like that is inexcusible to be doing in such a mature product.
Client server days are gone! Powersoft before sybase missed a HUGE oppty! This a lesson on simply giving up .... MARKET SHARE! BIG LESSON! I am glad I stuck with new technologies like Java, and .Net!!!
Como respondí en la pregunta anterior, es muy bueno el lenguaje, es rápido para generar ventanas y poder construir una aplicaciàn en poco tiempo. Pero si he tenido problemas cuando trabajo con informix, pues no puedo generar un "DW" a partir de un procedimiento almacenado, por lo tanto estoy un poco limitada para utilizar esa opciàn como yo quisiera, y no he descubierto cual es la razàn, me gustaría si alguien pudiera ayudarme en ese sentido.
Como una nota adicional siento que a PowerBuilder le falta la sentencia FOR...EACH para manejar ciclos entre las colecciones de un objeto (mas que nada Automatizacion de objetos COM), cosa que no se puede hacer con el FOR...NEXT ya que solo es a base de un indice. Otra nota adicional es que con la introduccion de PB 10.5 Sybase logro incrementear enormemente el diseño de interfaces de aplicaciones de usuario que se hace con esta herramienta, sin embargo pienso que le hace falta mejorar solo un poco mas ya que el nuevo estandar visual de aplicaciones como por ejemplo Office 2007 cada vez mas impresionantes lo hacen quedar atras nuevamente.
con mucha pena debo decir que es una plataforma que dejada de lado....talvez por la falta de marketing, aun habiendo demostrado ser muy buena plataforma en muchos aspectos.
Contento con el Lenguaje de Programacion
Creemos por experiencia propia que, PowerBuilder es una herramienta excepcional, para nosotros la mejor hasta el momento, ya que cubre todas nuestras espectativas.Dado un proyecto nuevo que tenemos, nos gustaria que las versiones posteriores de PowerBuilder tengan un soporte mas avanzado y facil de utilizar en cuestion de mejoras de los objetos gráficos windows y por que no tambien Linux, implementando la utilizacion de objetos multimedia y de animaciones de ventanas por ejemplo pudiendo configurar dicha opcion desde la barra de herramientas o propiedades por ejemplo.Estaremos esperando noticias nuevas y desde aqui un saludo cordial.
Creo que es un error que se le haya llamado PowerBuilder al IDE. Para muchos profesionistas que utilizan o han utilizado la herramienta PowerBuilder es sinànimo del lenguaje de desarrollo, no del IDE. Para mí utilizar PowerBuilder para desarrollo web es una contradicciàn de términos ya que PowerBuilder es un lenguaje de desarrollo propiamente cliente/servidor. De hecho, el DataWindow Object y el DataWindow Control, que fueron el motor que impulsà PowerBuilder en la década de los 90, han sido precísamente el obstáculo para que PowerBuilder se pueda utilizar para desarrollar en web ya que la tecnología (ASP, JSP) es distinta. Lo que deben hacer es llamar al IDE PowerStudio donde uno pueda desarrollar ya sea para la plataforma WinForm utilizando PowerBuilder/DataWindows o para la plataforma WebForm utilizando ASP.NET y PowerBuilder/DataWindows (en lugar de C#). Entonces tendrían un éxito en sus manos ya que si me dan a escoger entre programar en C# o programar en PowerBuilder prefiero PowerBuilder porque ya lo conozco y con las DataWindows es mucho más eficiente para el acceso a las bases de datos. Mi calificaciàn de 7 es porque no siento que hayan mejorado PowerBuilder como Microsoft ha mejorado C# o Visual Basic, ni tampoco han mejorado el IDE de PowerBuilder como Microsoft ha mejorado Visual Studio.
Creo que es una Heramienta de Facil programacion para los desarrolladores de software y esperemos q
Creo que PowerBuilder es la numero Uno en aplicaciones Cliente/Servidor. Sin embargo por experiencias en desarrollo de aplicaciones n-capas con Java/PowerBuilder sobre plataformas Unix-Linux no funciona. Seguramente por lo ineficiente del servidor EAServer o por los problemas de PBVM que nunca terminan de solucionarse. En fin hay un sin numero de buenos pretextos para ya dejar de lado PowerBuilder
Cursos de actualizacion, ademas de mas informacion de usar la herramienta. Muchos mas foros.
Datawindow is awesome. GUI components is poor and ugly. Pcode is slow.
DATAWINDOW PARA JAVA
debemos migrar para aplicaciones web, con desarrollo software libre...
Deberia darsele mas difusiàn a aplicaciones .Net, sobre todo la parte de DataWindow .NET. Pues en las empresas consideran dejarlo porque no es para web y aun mantienen versiones 7 y 8.
Deberia existir mas opciones para el Desarrollador, al menos en poder conseguir a costo mas bajo las nuevas versiones o si no es imposible cambiarse a PB11.
Deberia haber mayor difusion de la herramienta asi como mayor cantidad de centros de capácitacion competentes. Powerbuilder debe evolucionar al mismo ritmo que sus competidores para no quedarse atras.
Deberia ser mas fácil colocar anuncios en la ventana frame, hasta el momento esto no es natural
Deberian mejorar el manejo de los tipos de datos graficos de una base de datos para poder mostrarlos en los datawindows, los crosstab deben ser mas flexibles frente a cambios.
Debería haber más funciones integradas en Powerbuilder, para no tener que utilizar funciones externas que llaman a dlls de win32, como por ejemplo comunicaciones por puertos serie, VPN,...
Debería ser una plataforma que se integre fácilmente con IIS y todo el entorno web de forma más natural, aunque soy un admirador de powerbuilder hay que reconocer que en el entorno web están retrazados respecto a .net, y además en Ecuador han perdido el mercado empresarial que hace un par de años era dominado por Powerbuilder, incluso en las universidades ya no se lo enseña y por tanto cada vez es más dificil conseguir egresados o ingenieros que sepan el lenguaje. Saludos Marlon Tulcán 095861621
DEFINATELY POWERBUILDER IS THE EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT TOOL BUT THERE IS NO FUTURE OR WE CAN SAY NO CAREER FOR A POWERBUILDER PROGRAMMER, FROM LAST 9 YEARS I AM WORKING ON POWERBUILDER IN BAHRAIN AND WHEN I HAVE BEEN TO INDIA, I HAVE SEEN THAT THERE IS NOT EVEN A COMPANY USING POWERBUILDER AND DIFFICULT TO GET JOB FOR POWERBUILDER PROGRAMMER AND EVEN THE BOOK STALL HAVE STOPPED SELLING POWERBUILDER BOOKS, I AM SORRY TO SAY BUT THE TRUTH IS POWERBUILDER PROGRAMMER\'S FUTURE IS IN GREAT DANGER IF THEY STILL CONTINUE WITH POWERBUILDER
Depending on testing & experements over PowerBuilder version 8 & later, compared to other product like visual studio 2005 & later, we found that in the development of windows applications PB is dominating any competitor. PB needs to support web more effectively to be like ASP.net. It is very clear to us that Sybase lake of good advertisment. If PB was a product from Microsoft you will see it definitly the number 1 development tool.
Desarrollar power builder para linux y sus distribuciones
Deseamos codigos o ejemplos mas abertos para los usuarios
Developers generally support PB and have a wealth of PB knowledge but management views PB development as increasingly risky. Our long range strategy will be toward C# and .Net. Sad to say that new projects will not be using PB although after 15 years of PB development we will continue to have many years of PB maintenance.
Do something so that PB gets importance as VB....MORE MARKETING...
Don't get fancy! Improve on what PowerBuilder is strong and reliable. In other Words: todays best COmmon Business Oriented Language
eguimos investigando como migrar desde un DataWindows a Excell
El diseñador de Datawindows deb mejorar dramaticamente para crear reportes complejos con mayor facilidad.
El easerver es muy costoso y debería ser gratia como el IIS de Microsoft.
El Power Builder es solvente y robusto, rápido en el desarrollo de aplicaciones basadas especialmente con bases de datos, espero mejore su plataforma para el desarrollo de aplicaciones más analíticas
El PowerBuilder 11, deberia tener alguna opcion de licenciamiento que sea masivo y llegue a mas desarrolladores. Conosco profesionales desarrolladores en PB, muy buenos, que estan dejando o planeando en cambiar de herramienta de desarrollo en las empresas donde laboran, porque licenciarce al 100% actualmente a las empresas les resulta caro. Y esta situacion en realidad me apena mucho. No trato de promover la pirateria ni mucho menos, si no que SYBASE deberia diseñar un medio de licenciamiento que sean validos por regiones por ejemplo, haciendo que la herramienta penetre aun mas el mercado.
El tiempo de desarrollo es rapido con PowerBuilder, el inconveniente es en web: problemas de seguridad, servidor de aplicaciones entre otros
En attente de la version 12 en espérant une profonde refonte de l'interface de l'outil et une intégration totale .Net.
En el área web los cambios han sido demasiado drasticos de version a versiàn obligandonos a migrar y en ciertos casos a casi rehacer varios sitemas (Dynamo,HTML,JSPs.../ EASERVER) En el área cliente servidor se siente cierto abandono, ya que las mejoras no son demasiadas y no se actuliza la parte visual de presentaciàn al usuario.
En la empresa donde trabajo se realizo la compra de un sistema Dabez para manejo de produccion y me interesa mucho conocer sobre el desarrollo sobre Power Builder.. Ya que pienso que es una muy buena plataforma de desarrollo
En lo personal llevo trabajando con Power Builder alrededor de 10 años y encuentro que es la mejor plataforma gráfica de programaciàn.
En mi trabajo actuasl no lo utilizan pero en particular sigo desarrollando como consuultor o asesor a pequeñas y medianas empresas. Ademas de hacer aplicaciones personales. Quisiera sdaber si me pueden enviar la ultima version de powerbuilder y de power designer de ser posible remitirla a: Calle Urdaneta Casa #28 Cumana Estado Sucre Venezuela
en nuestro pais El Salvador powerbuilder esta perdiendo mucho mercado ya que las tecnologias Java y .NET estas abarrotando el mercado, por que son menos costosas, para mi la herramienta de desarrollo en Powerbuilder es una de las mejores en el mercado, lo unico malo es que la empresa Sybase no toma encuenta a los Latino americanos en cuanto a proporcionar manuales e informacion en español, esa es otra de las desventajas de powerbuilder que no se encuentra mucha informacion para aprender a dominar las nuevas mejoras de la herramienta y si encontramos informacion solo existe en ingles, para mi sybase debe ya de velar por los desarrolladores de habla hispana y proporcionarnos la suficiente infromacion para seguir utilizando y aprendiendo esta herramienta.
En PB10, Les composants graphiques proposés ne sont pas d'une esthétique très actuelle et n'ont quasiment pas évolués depuis la version 6. Idem pour la datawindow. Ils manquent des tas d'objets graphiques, de widgets, de controles qui existent dans d'autres ateliers (Delphi par exemple). Quand on regarde une appli écrite en PB10, on fait un saut de 5 ans en arrière au niveau de l'IHM. C'est très peu vendeur auprès des clients qui attachent toujours plus d'importance à l'esthétique (aux gadgets) qu'au fonctionnel. Il y a aussi beaucoup trop de bugs dans l'IDE qui PLANTE sans arrêt. On s'habitue et on prend l'habitude de sauver après chaque ligne écrite, mais malheureusement, cela donne UNE TRES MAUVAISE IMAGE auprès des développeurs. Après 7 ans d'utilisation, je commence moi aussi, en m'en lasser sérieusement, même si je reconnais qu'il a des qualités qu'on a du mal a retrouver ailleurs (intégration avec la DB, rapidité, robustesse d'execution avec les PBD, modele objet, datawindow, etc).
EN PERU PARECE QUE ESTUVIERAMOS PERDIENDO FUERZA, ANTES TRABAJABA EN PROVINCIA, AHORA EN LA CAPITAL LIMA, Y CADA VES MENOS OPCIONES LABORALES, PARECE QUE SYBASE PERU NO LE IMPORTA AUMENTAR SU CARTERA DE CLIENTES, Y LOS PARNERTS SON NADA, ESPEREMOS QUE ENTREN CON BIBLIOGRAFIA EN ESPAÐOL PARA MOTIVAR A NUEVOS PROGRAMADORES O A LOS DESERTORES. SALUDOS.
Enhance the development environment, look at Microsoft .Net 2005: - their intellisense if FAR ahead of PB - The automated Camel Casing is the best, we don't have to care Uppercases/LowerCases - The script autoindent is better than PB. In brief, the .Net 2005 development is better than PB but PB is faster on development than .Net...the best would be to have the Power of PB in the .Net environment :) Enhance the Debugger, it's really painfull, crashes often, don't remember breakpoint changes, sometimes skip breakpoints...again, look at .Net 2005
Es la mejor herramienta del mercado, rapida , sin escritura de mucho codigo, se requiere mas promocion de la herramienta en las universidades, colegios para que amplie el numero de programadores en el mundo
Es la mejora herramienta que he usado para desarrollo de software
Es mi primer lenguaje dentro de mi desarrollo profesional.
Es necesario que power builder pueda correr sobre linux, porque cada vez esta llegando con más fuerza el software libre, las corporaciones exigen que se desarrolle sobre software libre.
Es necesario una mayor difusion de la herramienta.
Es un excelente software, solo que falta conocerlo muy bien para sacarle la efectividad. Muchas Gracias por su atenciàn prestada
Es una buena herramienta y espero siga mejorando mucho mas.
Es una excelente herramienta de desarrollo, creo que le faltaria mas intregracion en aplicaciones internet
Es una herramienta muy importante en la aplicacion de proyectos informaticos, asi mismo hasta que punto es muy seguro para trabajar con datos de entidades financieras, si su bakcup es muy confiable, gracias Luis Huertas- Movil:00-51-73-969093609 Piura PERU
Es Una herramienta muy poderosa, deberia tener en cuenta que si trabajo con una version superior y quiero guardar mi aplicacion me de la opcion de seleccionar compatible con una version anterior. X ejemplo: si trabajo con V.11 al guardar sea compatible con v10.5
es una herramienta regular para desarrollo.
Es una lastima que Banamex, solo ocupe PowerBuilder en el mantenimiento de las aplicaciones ya existentes y no la contemple para los desarrollos nuevo, se esta trabajando con java y dot.net y como base de Datos ORACLE, en lo personal como consultor no veo el sentido de estos cambios, ya que la suite de desarrollo de Oracle para mi es una soluci?n completa.
Es una lenguaje regular
Esas una excelente herramienta de desarrollo desde que empece con PowerBuilder5 las mejoras han sido muy buenas, desearia de que haya mas informacion en Español de PowerBuilder para desarrollar en Web. Por lo de mas, como dije anteriormente es una excelente herramienta.
ESPERO QUE SE MAS FACIL EL DESARROLO WEB EN PB
Esta herramienta es una de las mejores del mercado, y espero que en las nuevas versiones vengan más propiedades en el linea web.
Estoy utilizando recientemente y me parece muy interesante!!
Estuve mucho tiempo en Microsoft hasta q conocí Power Builder ahora soy un desarrollador adicto a esta herramienta
Eventhough pb is having lot may functionalities and new features, Nothing been revealed to the companies/developers. May do something to reach to everybody easily and there is no proper materials also. It would be good by taking necessary steps to give publicity or awareness about existing & new features.
Excelente
Excelente como reporteador. Se pueda mostrar la infromaciàn de multiples formas , gracias a sus datawindows. LAs deficiencias...que en ocasiones se corrompen los objetos, al extremo que ni regenerandolos funcionan.
Excelente herramienta de desarrollo, espero mejor tratamiento de informaci?n con sql server 2000 y 2005.
Excelente herramienta para desarrollo de aplicaciones Cliente/Servidor... Para el desarrollo de aplicaciones Web se decidio utilizar tecnología Java/J2EE basado en el IDE y utilitarios de Eclipse.
Excellent RAD tool easy data repository access. But stability is still an issue and I am still missing some object oriented features e.g. overload of the contstructure function e.c.t
Existing application should be made to run directly in portal/web. this will make PB more successful. There should be change only in compilation or setting.
Experiencing a lot of problems with this transition stage because more and ore ActiveX is available as .NET only and presently can't be integrated.
Falta ayuda con los errores comunes, conexiones con base de datos, reportes a hojas de calculo
Falta considerar en lo q es herencia
Falta mas difusion de la herramienta. Una buena opcion es lo que está haciendo Microsoft al dar cursos gratis online.
Falta mayor soporte y facilidades para integrar aplicaciones al ambiente J2EE
Fell very good
For the most part I really like PowerBuilder. One of the items I would like to see added is arguments to a drop-down datawindow that can be applied in the datawindow, like you would with a nested datawindow. Most of my drop downs are based on the data in the selected row and therefore I have to re-retreieve the data on rowfocuschanged event making it awkward at best.
For window development: 9 out of 10 For Web Development: 2 out of 10
General impression is C#/.NET is the wave of the future, and PB is just for maintaining and developing existing apps. No new apps will be built in Powerbuilder unless there\'s a substantiated change of mind.
Good luck...
Good Software
Gracias por interesarse en hacer un seguimiento a usuarios y tecnologias pb con estas encuestas.
Gracias por la encuesta
Great Client / Server tool which there is no better. If you are not a .net shop then moving to the web with PowerBuilder Technology is very challenging if not practical.
great tool! but marketing missteps & the PB7 debacle have killed 'mind share'. it's hrd to get people excited about PB any more. My company will be migrating off PB completely over the next 2-3 years.
Great tool. Need portability to linux and more people will use it in africa.
Hasta la fecha hemos utilizado Power Builder en ambiente cliente-servidor. Evaluaremos nuestra futura herramienta de desarrollo en la Web. En ese sentido sería interesante recibir informaciàn.
He venido utilizando power builder muchos años, y es unos de los lenguajes mas rapidos para desarrollar, pero me gustaria que se puediera programar en capaz asi como .net.
Hemos probado con PB 9 , 10. Utilizar datawindows - Richtext donde generalmente hay mal funcionamiento al generarlos no ha mejorado. ? Estros problemas se resuelven con el PB11 ?
Herramienta capaz de producir alto rendimiento y productividad en el desarrollo y mantenciàn de aplicaciones.
Herramienta muy poderosa para el Desarrollo. Se perdià la interacciàn con Power Designer.
HI, Can we make the deployment kit in Powerbuilder which has GUI to include pbds or dlls, Powerbuilder support dlls, powerbuilder resource file, DB related dlls and other support files required for applications to run in Windows or Mac environment. Please do that. It would really make PB a complete RAD tool. Thanks Kumar Krishnan
Highly productive tools like PowerBuilder are a must for or organization.
Hola soy estudiante Universitario y bueno me interesa mucho el uso del Power Builder, pero me agradaria que lo que se programa a nivel de aplicacion lo pueda migrar a web, es decir para usar dichas apliaciones en web de igual manera que se utiliza cuando uno no esta en el internet...saludos y gracias por mejorar cada dia esta herramienta..saludos desde Madre de Dios-Per·
hope powerbuilder become the best develoment tool
I am completing this survey for nostalgia purposes only. I enjoyed using PowerBuilder for ten years, but with the Sybase acquisition it completely lost focus (and brainshare). The datawindow is still awesome, but it has been neglected in favor of attempting to do things PB just doesn't do well: web apps, integration with application servers etc.
I am currently migrating a PB10.5 application to PB11 WebForm. PB11 is an amazing product. I have issues with PFC dropdown calender, DDDw's. Also want to be able to call server side javascript whenever I want. Despite these issues, fantasic first shot at .Net implementation...please keep it up. I have 3 years experience with Visual Studio .Net and PB11 is far superior in terms of productivity.
I am desperately looking at Sybase, India to market PB as much as possible in India and in particular, in Mumbai. I look forward to their assistance in approaching numerous IT companies in Mumbai and convince them in choosing PB as the preferred development platform in their upcoming projects. This way, ex-PB programmers can once again deep-dive in the newly found PB market of Mumbai.
I am enjoying woking with PB! I think DW technology still has no equivalent. Some work has to be done for improving application & IDE stability, multithreading (including easier usage of asynchronous DW retrieval and asynchronous WEB download) of pure GUI applications (not .NET ones), graphics processing functionality, maybe embedded support (wrapper) of MS Crypto API functions. Wish you all the best! Thanks!
I am learning C# and .net because all of the jobs I see for PowerBuilder people are to port those applications to .net. Sorry, but not many of the companies I deal with as a consultant are planning to go forward with PowerBuilder.
I am now using PB6.5. I will soon test 11.2 to check if the databaseproblems etc. that I have encountered with PB10 is solved. If not, I will go back to PB6.5 (the last stable version). I hope that PB11 will generate proper PDF documents (reports).
I am upgrading from PB 8 to PB 11. The IDE is a little outdated when compare to Visual studio 2008. I wish I had the intellisense feature in PB 11, that will same me a lot of typing.
I design apps that are sold to consumers who expect a modern look and feel. 10.5 definitely is an improvement but PB desperately needs to be enhanced to allow for modern, slick, Vista style interfaces. As well, I use PB Desktop because that has all of the features I need. In PB 11 however the .NET features I'd like to use are all restricted to Enterprise. This is a big mistake from a marketting perspective. If I learn PB.NET in my own business, then I use it at client sites. Client sites will always need PB Enterprise. By including .NET in Desktop, people can learn it cheaply and see everything it can do, then convince clients to invest in Enterprise. More money for Sybase.
I develop applications using .Net, VB6, C++, C#, Pascal, ..., I see that PowerBuilder is the best but SYBASE is the Worst in marketing and actualy this is the main Defect in PowerBuilder.
I dislike: PB crashing regularly Inability to edit an ancestor and a child object at the same time Long compile times Poor debugger
I Enjoy to develop application with Power Builder! Thank You!
I have been developing PowerBuilder since Dec. 1998. Keep making the improvements not only with respect to .NET but also with the Open Source / Java World.
I have been using PowerBuilder for client/server development since v4. I am currenlty upgrading 8 applications to pb11 and looking at developing a new application using pb11 web capabilities. Powerbuilder is a GOOD tool.
I have been using PowerBuilder since 1993. After using .NET on a few application recently I am having more problems continuing to develop in PowerBuilder due to reliability and limitation issues. We can just code in .NET and not have the problems when we deploy web services, web applications and such. Also the .NET IDE is amazing with the way it does autoscript. We have had reliability issues with using datawindow .NET in Visual Studio as well. (Locks up and requires a restart of Visual Studio.) Keep moving forward making PowerBuilder compatible with Visual Studio and reliable and we would love to continue using it. Our experience with Appeon was that is was half-baked and had so many issues that we don't recommend it anymore. We could have written the application in .NET and had it run 10 times more reliable.
I have been using PowerBuilder since release 3 to develop client server applications. I am a Consultant/Developer and use PowerBuilder in developing and maintaining applications for many companies around the USA. I do not see a reason to change.
I have stumbled across some very annoying bugs in the IDE. One that is particularly bothersome, has to do with changing parameters in functions/procedures. Most generally , when I alter an existing function's parameters ( i.e. changing the parameter name, data type , reference/value type ) the IDE will crash, and must be restarted. Another issue i have is with the compiler. I have seen instance where a variable declaration and initialization behave strange. For Example: do while (some condition true) //want to set some locally declared var to true each iteration boolean b = true loop I have seen bugs develop because of this single line declaration/initialization problem. It's like the variable is never assigned a value at all. But if I had coded instead: boolean b b = true there is no problem.
I hope PowerBuilder can be saved.
I hope that more powerbuilder issued a number of technical books (compared professional), in China and more advertising and publicity, China's big market and many users; I will always support powerbuilder.
I hope you can standardize most of the common utility objects in PFC and and integrate in in Powerbuilder. Just like in .Net or Java, for example, a String have many nice functions already builtin the String class without having to use other classes, in PB you'd have a messy n_cst_string which you have to declare that takes up another line of code and more characters when calling the function. Ex: in PB, n_cst_string ln_str ln_str.of_decomposetoarray("Some String", ",", ...) in Java/.Net "Some String".split(","...); I guess a more OOP way. to save some typing and a more cleaner code.
I introduced the powerbuilder to Riyad Bank and now I'm moved to another bank and I will try to impose on
I like powerbuilder, I agreed to purchase the latest version but do not agree with the new licensing method.
I like the direction that PB is moving in but for our company the decision has already been made to hire to an outside consultant to re-write the application from the ground up in C#/ASP.NET This is unfortunate because PB is still the best tool for client/server development and it is danger of becoming just another 3rd party component of Visual Studio.
I love the tool. One language to deploy to multiple platforms: Client/Server, Handhelds, and now the Web! It does almost everything we need it to do. I'm glad Sybase is now offering a path to .Net to leverage our current skill set. This is the core business application for our company so we are very vested in it's future.
I love to work in powerbuilder
I love using datawindows. It makes development so much faster. I'm looking forward to my next project in PB 11 so I can do web development in my app. The one thing that I would really like to see improved is being able to save datawindows as PDF documents (maybe it has improved in PB 11). Currently, it is very difficult to integrate into an application using PB 10 that I finally gave up on it but it would be so beneficial to some of my users to be able to use it.
I miss being able to easily paste instance variables and parameters from the dropdowns. I wish there were a common ancestor for datawindows and datastores (or if PB supported interfaces, that would work too). I wish the search results were a bit more permanent, rather than disappearing whenever I file a change.
I need to migrate my existing apps to Web seemlessly
I rated PB 7/10 but it would be 9/10 if not for the instability and random crashes for no apparent reason.
I really love PowerBuilder. Unfortunately you are doing a horrible job marketing the new versions and of course you were late to the dance so to speak. So I find myself now having to build a foundation class for .net to try to get to the same level of speed in building applications. That being said once I make the move, I doubt I will ever see PowerBuilder again. A real shame as I can literally do anything with PowerBuilder, and quickly. If I knew of an employer that was sticking with PowerBuilder I would go to work for them in a heart beat. Of course that is the problem... finding a company that is going to stick with PowerBuilder, another case of a company sitting on its base while Microsoft chipped it away.
I see a real need for earlier adoption of future MS technology like WPF for clients, Workflow Foundations for server-deployed NVOs. I also really want easier way to import a XML Schema file as a new XML template inside a DW object.
I still am amazed by the datawindow capabilities after 10 years of developing with it. Long life to powerbuilder and the datawindow. Guy
I still don't understand why Sybase have left such a good tool as PowerBuilder go down the drain. Is their common policy?
I think it would be very useful if you put in the results a graph with the number of people that had taken the survey every year. It would be a good indicator, along as the results already provided. Thanks.
I think once PB is fully .NET compliant it will see a resurgence in use because development is so much faster in PB than in Java or other current fashionable technologies
I think powerbuilder should can generate to php syntax too and don't just support .NET cause .NET platform is too slow
I think the PowerBuilder developers are doing great work moving the product forward. I hope they will continue their work and gain more adopters of the technology. I have been using it since 1993!
I wish the powerbuilder to have the following features to be included: a) Enviornment Identification & Supporting functions b) Using IIS as additional web server c) Support for Windows messaging services
I wish you can do anything about making a RightToLeft CROSSTAB.
i work before oracle,vb, but win i work in PowerBuilder I fond my self with this language ,what I Need as Programmer I Can Do it ,But In The Other language Not easy to do for that I dont need To Change this language ,and the DataBase Very Easy To Use and The Speed of database in the network its faster.
I would like to be able to use boolean searches in the PowerBuilder IDE library text search.
I would like to see improvements to the debugging capabilities within PowerBuilder. A unified IDE might be nice (Pocket Powerbuilder, datawindow .NET, Powerbuilder).
I would like to see simple tools or build-in tools from PB to regenerate the old PB application and make it running as web application working under browser
I'd like to see more bug fixes in new version of PowerBuilder rather than new features that I'm not likely to use. There were bugs introduced several years ago that still remain.
I'll never chnage PowerBuilder I just want sybase to give more annoucement like microsoft and oracle ,specially in middle east
I'm the last hope for continued PB development in my shop, but it seems to be a losing battle to the .NET developers who haven't ever learned PB and management who is afraid Sybase is legacy and going out of business. We have enough applications that PB will be around for awhile, but all new work (except mine) will be .NET, for better or worse (worse, I say).
I'm the lone holdout for PB in my shop. Everybody else wants to do .NET. I still get things done faster/better with PB but the management believes the product and Sybase are dead because there\'s no talent pool for the product.
I've used Powerbuilder since 1996 version 4. The datawindows are second to none. We are a Software Development company that has about 7 PB apps. One new development in the last 2 years, mostly support of the current apps. For new development we use JAVA. The only problem I have is there doesn't seem to be a lot of companys that use PowerBuilder, at least not in the Syracuse, New York area. I wish there were more options since we are a very small company that relies heavily on government contracts
I've worked with PB from version 3 to version 10 for about 18 years. IMHO I feel it was a great tool when client/server was the hot new thing. I've watched PB try to hang on to it's dominace when the movement to web began. It appears to me that Sybase didn't keep the level of inovation that Powersoft had. I don't know what was really going on in the boardrooms of Sybase but from my point of view, it appears they tried to ride the wave of PB popularity with limited or no continued investment. Kevin Hertz Developer City & County of Denver
IDE Stability and Performance is our biggest negative. Needing to use PowerGen to build without crashing is also negative.
if I could deploy powerbuilder applications to web, I think powerbuilder is the best development tool
If it will be easy for the developer to develop web based applications in Powerbuilder then I think PowerBuilder future will be very bright. Also there should be video/other tutorials available on net like other programming languages and tools. PowerBuilder help especially for web development is very less available on internet. I have seen many CBTs for others and they really help a lot in learning that tool. So PowerBuilder should also provide such CBTs.
If pb coded software can be used both in web and client server without major changes it is the best. There is no proper marketing statages for PB. So new porogrammers in PB is less as well as PB developers availibity is less. PB support as well as training is to be provided properly
If Sybase actually used marketing for PB, it would be big again.
If Sybase was to get their product in the colleges and training centers as MS did with visual basic, access, etc. there would be more people with PowerBuilder knowledge. We would be able to hire developers with some training. As it is we can not hire trained personnel. Therefore we have to shift our development environment to where we can hire trained or at least slightly knowledgable personnel.
Improve GUI design/properties. Improve memory handling for Application/DW.
Improvement of PASP 1.0 and PB for Linux
In my country -Jordan- PowerBuilder use is going to vanish, there is no support for it, and no more developers you can find. in my opinion PowerBuilder is a very great development tool and I like it too much.
In powerbuilder latest version should concentrated on distrubuted powerbuilder.
In the past Powerbuilder was an excellent and reliable product. However, the recent releases have tried to turn it into a end all / be all product and it is managing to fail. Sybase should have created a different product to implement its web functionality rather than taking a good fat client tool and making is suitable for neither fat client development or web development.
Including pictures in a PB application should be as easy as attaching attaching a document. I do not know if that has been fixed in later versions.
informacion minima en la web (para las personas que se inician), deberian brindar un boletin de novedades e inforamcion de las ultimas versiones y mas enfasis en las ventajas de la ultima version 11.2. Pero power builder tiene para rato.
Integracion WEB 100%, Disminucion del Costo de la herramienta de desarrollo
Integration with Microsoft products decreases stability of PB. The more integration, the less power of DataWindow and the PB itself. Programing becames boring. I'm trying to use old good pure PB but it's much more difficult than in the past. My opinion about PB itself is still 10/10, but present release 8/10 and is falling down. I'm very sad about it. There is a bright side too. Don't worry Sybase. Use your own technology and everything will be OK. ;-)))
Integration with source control (refreshing objects) need to be better and faster. I like more control HTML generation of datawindow/reports (need to use the same style sheet or tags option). Multi-threaded programming for some long running reports. Creating more sophisticated Install programs Tool for generating correct code fro Datawindow Modfiy/describe Better marketing of this tool(reduce prize) so that it is more affordable to all Port it Linux Create some more demo and learning tutorial for newbies.
Is it possible to generate .net as well as j2ee deployable components using the same datawindow.
Is very import for us to have in PB the LINUX support
It is the perception within this organisation that Powerbuilder will continue to lag behind current developments in .NET and that it is a dead end, career wise.
It looks strange for me that PowerBuilder DataWindow doesn't have Title band symmetric to Summary one that should appeared only in the very beginning of the report and could contain report's resume, places fo signatures, etc. Then, I would inlcude GhostScript and Acrobat Reader installation into PowerBuilder deployment because saving as PDF is the only option to keep all the formating of complicate DataWindows (PSR is pretty out of date solution, and PSR Viewer isn't deployed with PB VM, either).
It Wud be better if web application can be formed with the help of power builder alone and not with the help of .net framework.
Its a waste of space - Sybase should sell it to sombody who is willing to invest in it or kill it off completely - it would be a more humane way to treat it!
J''espère que PowerBuilder permettra rapidement de concevoir des applications riches et complexe pour le Web
Keep on improving the best Rad ever.
La forma en la que se desarrollan las aplicaciones son muy rápidas y càmodas pero hay veces que los errores que nos dan en los que se pierden datos son muy frecuentes y llegan a desesperar. Hemos probado a trabajar sin antivirus y solo con el PowerBuilder en memeoria (además del Windows) y no soluciona nada. Espero que en pràximas releases esto mejore
la migraciàn entre versiones no es perfecta y lleva mucho tiempo adaptar el càdigo a las nuevas versiones. Cuando ya hemos cambiado a otra versiàn ustedes sacan la siguiente y así siempre. Hasta la versiàn 11 powerbuilder va muy por detras de otras herramientas para desarrollos orientados a internet.
La suppression d'APPMODELER est inadmissible et nous force à acheter un outils dont nous n'utilisons que 10%. La gestion du multi-langue devrait être intégré à PB (ENABLE)
La versiàn 6.5 es muy cerrada en el sentido que no se pueden comprar componentes ya construidos por terceros. Arquitectura de software muy cerrada
Las aplicaciones son muy seguras y mucho mas estables
le client serveur existe toujours dans notre société. Il co¹te bien moins cher a développer que les applications web . Si tout le monde est sur un réseau interne , le client-serveur suffit. Tous les exécutables sont sur un serveur de fichier et nous n'avons pas besoin d'installer nos applications partout, contrairement à ce que prétendre les commerciaux. Nous n'avons pas trouvé de bug dans les produits PB 6.5 à 9
Learning tools are difficult to get and there are less powerbuilder books available in the market when compared to Ms development tools
Lejos pero lejos! Power Builder es el mejor lenguaje para manejos de datos. LLevo casi 15 años desarrollando con PB y me ha dado muchas satisfacciones. He desarrollado todo tipo de aplicaciones inclusive controlando hardware en tiempo real. OLVIDENSE DE .NET Es una basura lenta que consume demasiados recursos incluso el RunTime es PATETICO!
Lo ·nico que estoy esperando es que sybase libere un plugin de datawindow para desarrollo web que se pueda desplegar en un tomcat, whesphere, jboss sin depender de EASERVER...ALGO PARECIDO A LA DATAWINDOW.NET PARA MICROSOFT. PARA EL CASO DEL PB11, SOLO SE CONCENTRARON EN MICROSOSFT NO PENSARON EN LOS OPENSOURCE DE JAVA.
Looking forward for the full .NET migration in version 12 - if this fails, we will stop using PowerBuilder.
los felicitos por las grandes mejoras que le han hecho a las versiones...
Love the product, hate the company. They don't market well, they're too slow, and they're too far behind.
Love the product. Hate the fact few places use it and I will probably have to move to a new platform or change fields.
Loved PB for years.. hard to find PB developers tho .. That is the reason we will most likely be phasing out and into .net
Manque d'exemples concrets sur les differentes possibilités un peu trop brut (demande beaucoup de connaissance pour utiliser PB) (principe de windev ou il y a beaucoup d'exemple d'utilisation)
Marketing as usual is weak and no new book commissioned for 11 and baove
mas documentacion en castellano
Mas libros o tuturiales sobre el uso de este lenguaje ,,, utilizando las ultimas tecnologia.
Me encanta PB, pero necesitamos un control grafico, para desarrollar tareas de ingenieria. Gracias,
Me guataria que le den mas fuerza al tema del pocket Builder
Me gustaria conocer sitios donde se pueda realizar consultas para las nuevas versiones de PB. Pues son pocos los lugares para cuando deseo averiguar la solucion de algun problema.
Me gustaría calificarles a 10, me falta aplicar bastante de la programaciàn, lo que se me ha servido mucho para la programaciàn base
Me gustaría la integraciàn de Power Builder con herramientas Web y con soporte a lenguajes de codigo libre
Me gustaría que se realizara un mayor despliegue de las nuevas funcionalidades de la herramienta en nuestro país, foros o algo donde se presente mejor todo lo nuevo de Power Builder.
Me gustaría saber donde encontrar manuales de Power Builder en Español y si hay Certificaciones en power Builder
Me parece muy Interesante pero seria mejor aun si se integra con otros lenguajes de programacion y tambien para Unix...
Me parece que la herramienta no se ha quedado atras, pero creo que deberian difundir un poco más el proceso de migraciàn de aplciaciones de escritorio a web utilizando Power Builder, de igual manera difundir el Pocket sería de gran utilidad o por lo meno contar con herramientas free para difundirlo y dar lo a conocer.
Me parece una herramienta espectacualar, pero la version orientada a la WEB viene con muchas restricciones en cuanto a su instalacion y uso, asi mucha desarrolladores intentaran cambiar a otras herramientas .net, asi seria bueno tratar de liberar, sabemos que existen software libre o sin tanta restriccion a la que se pueda cambiar.
Mejorar aplicaciones generadas a .Net a partir de PB. Actualmente su rendimiento es muy lento.
Mejorar las opciones graficas.
More examples of new features usage are needed
More improve on processing speed
More window dressing elements. Bombard the web with the How-to examples from Apps and .net side.
muy buena herramienta, pero todos los nuevos desarrollos los estamos haciendo en java
muy buenos en realidad espero pueda mejorar mas en la interfaz grafica de usuario
muy importante q se haga este tipo de consultas
My only conern is for the longeivity of our (client/server) product - a suite of applications with a look and feel of the 12 years of age they are. XP-style controls and freeware/3rd party menu interfaces (from codeexchange) help to improve appearance but ultimately we will lose out against competitors with more contemporary looking software.
Necesitamos capacitacion on line, en mi caso yo estoy fuera de la capital y es dificil asistir a entrenamientos medianos o largos fuera de esta provincia.
Need to improve the marketing.
NEEDS MORE ADVERTISING, BLOGS, ARTICLES ETC TO MAKE IT POPULAR/COOL AGAIN
Needs MS OLAP OLE Db support. As well as MDX. Data Window should have support for Multi dimensional data sources (OLAP) and MDX.
No dejaría nunca a PowerBuilder
no existen manuales en español o castellano, tampoco existe un buen blog o foro para el desarrollo o aprendizaje de power builder, bueno al menos no lo conosco ?
No hay mayor experiencia y asesoria en herramientas para entorno Web.
No local support = no one uses any more (but this is about the 5th time I've said that).
no sybase education in india
Not sure how much Sybase Inc. will listen to this.. but please put effort in the marketing of Powerbuilder especially outside USA. Do something fast to attract more usage of PB, probably in the Education and Government sector. If PB do well.. I will definitely gain from it. Popularity wise and money wise. Otherwise... bye bye PB, my love!!
Nous sommes très satisfait du produit. Il est performant, assez convivial et surtout très stable (runtime). Le GUI aurait besoin d'une modernisation plus intensive, avec peut Ûtre une ouverture vers le monde Web 2.0 et les différents outils du marché. Comparé à ses concurrents comme \"Visual ... \" et Cie, pour PB il est souvent très difficile ou impossible de trouver des infos techniques ou \"How to do\", ou bien les exemples sont trop simples et donc inadaptés pour le monde réel. Actuellement, l'avenir et surtout la pérénité de PB sont difficiles à évaluer, cela ne facilite pas les planifications à long terme.
Office standard not .Net and C#
one of the best Application development tools, and very powerful and sturdy.
Our customers want browser based applications. We need Powerbuilder to continue being a cutting-edge data manipulation engine development tool--and also become a cutting-edge browser-based gui development tool. Powerbuilder apps need an easy from-the-web update capability.
Our large commercial application is written in PowerBuilder. We depend on it now and for the future!
Outil en perte de vitesse, il deviens de plus en plus difficile de recruter des personnes sur cette technologie
para mi los DW son los nejores objectos y crosstab hace lo que puede ps me gustaria que lo mejoraran mas.
Para mi power Builder esta sobrado, el detalle es que las empresas buscan desarrollos en .Net esto por ser Microsoft, al menos esoes lo que ocurre en mi pais, las empresas desarrolladoras se enfocan mas en el respaldo de Microsoft.
PB beats any other language and any other IDE hands down. It is unfortunate that Sybase cannot get that word out to the developer community very well. It is unfortunate that Microsoft's marketing dollars is much bigger - that is the ONLY reason why visual studio outsells PB.
PB es lo máximo.
PB est un outil puissant, et apprécié pour sa stabilité. Il est par contre assez limité au niveau des liens avec MS Word, et la dw ole assez peu efficace pour réaliser des documents avec images, tableau, ... Nous avons recours au PDF mais c\'est une lourde limitation que de ne pouvoir modifier le document une fois éditer Idem pour les exports Excel qui ne prenne pas en compte la mise en page.
PB is a good tool but support is not upto mark.
PB is a great product. Please make it live for long & make it up-to-date.
PB is a robust product for developing client/server apps for use in a real-time production environment. Would like to be able to easily convert to a newer technology at some point as the market moves away from PB it is getting harder to find qualified developers.
PB is aging and not integrating as well as we would have liked with other technologies
PB is best tool for building robust client/server application with thousands objects. We can make all, what end users need :-)
PB is still faster to develop data-driven applications, we use PFC pretty heavily. We\'d like to leverage our knowledge of PB in our exploration of .NET
PB keeps involving in an impressive rate, but its foundations are just poor. The IDE constantly crashes, and provide a fraction of the functionality modern IDEs provide (when will we finally get a decent source browser, other than the great Visual Expert?). The debugger is horrible as well (when will they finally solve the ancient missing and reappearing debug breakpoints?). All and all, it seems like Sybase\'s strategy is being appealing to the decision makers, who get impressed by shiny stuff like WPF, rather than to the developers, who actually have to use the IDE.
PB needs to be completely .NET based, there should be new charts which are really pathetic. Database applications that retrieve images from the database, paging is really needed. There is no beautification element, eventhough it is there, it is very difficult to do it, CSS implementation is also tough. There should be lot of benefits to the developer to use it, Only the developers will take the product to a greater height and they will act as word of mouth.
PB Rocks!
PB should become .NET
PB support from Sybase is expensive
PB, while a good tool is near dead. I'm finding .net and visual studio to be a suitable replacement. If these was a good rad tool for php I'd be into that to.
People don't know what they are missing, if you see the time needed in other projects using Visual Studio. Powerbuilder is RAD !
Personalmente pienso que Power Builder es una de la herramientas mas versatiles para el desarrollo de sistemas, provee una facilidades para cualquier desarrollador.
Personalmente pienso que se cometio un error al integrar tan nativamente el soporte de .NET. Realmente son recio a utilizar cualquier entorno de desarrollo de Microsoft. Deberian apostar por hacer PowerBuilder 100% multiplataforma!!!!! Y no casarlo con Windows!
Please continue development of this powerful tool!
Please dont' take my comments to reflect Cisco overall. I used to be in the IT dept, and have moved to Product Management. I continue to use PB to prototype our applications.
Please give the source of PB to me. I want to developt it. What are you doing sybase?. Do you waiting the date of the die of Powerbuilder. We will never use web futures of Pb. It is client server developing tool. It is best tool. You forgetted this. You spend the time.
Please improve the marketing & adveriesment of PowerBuilder. Then it cann be much popular.
Please Please Please fix some bugs!! The developer studio should NEVER blow up! How about looking at the .Net studio and stealing some ideas. Like toolbars that slide away when your cursor is not positioned over them. That would allow more viewing space. Full regen of code should 'OPTIMIZE' as an option. Duh! And datawindows should recompile as well, meaning they should hit the database. We've changed fields in the database and had to physically touch the datawindow in order for the datawindow to reflex the change. WRONG! Also equally anoying is while editing a datawindow, and clicking the properties box to another tab, then clicking on another field in the datawindow, MAKES THE DATAWINDOW OBJECT MOVE TO A NEW LOCATION!! This issues still exists! Very minor league! I would scream at my development team for this bug that has lasted for ever, even in PB11. FOR THESE REASONS ALONE I KNOW PEOPLE ARE SWITCHING TO .NET, DUE TO AN UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT STUDIO. CALL ME IF NEEDED. I CAN LOCATE A FEW DOZEN MORE IF NEEDED.
poco desarrolladores en esta plataforma, lo cual es una deventaja para una empresa recurrir a esta tecnología, por otra parte los gerentes de proyectos no conocen bien el producto ni sus potencialidades
Podrian hacer un compilado de las funciones mas importantes, ya que los manuales son muy extensos y un poco complicados. La ayuda que viene con el software deberia ser mas didactica en el sentido deberia tener mas ejemplos o al menor tener unos cd de mas ejemplos practicos. Los controles deberias contar con asistentes tipo DW, gracias
Poor graphical features, main users like to see a rich graphic interfase, I've working from PB 5.0 up to 10.2 user interfase is pretty much the same.
Poor marketing of SYBASE, because that we hardly any development project. And company are scraping PB projects going for DOT net etc. My view SYBASE sholud to something so that it can compete with MICROSOFT tools or other tool. It is happening becuase in industry people are not aware of what PB can do?
por favor mejoren los graficos que es un punto muy debil y dar manuales especificos de como y donde deben de ubicarse los codigos para usar correctamente los pfc\'s
Power Builder es lo maximo
power builder es muy bueno como C/S
Power Builder es una excelente herramienta para desarrollo. Y en cada nueva versiàn nos ofrece una fabulosa gama de funciones que hacen más amigable nuestro trabajo como desarrolladores.
Power Builder es una exelente y rapida herramienta de desarrollo. El Datawindow es una invencion magistral. tal vez .NET sea bueno e intente igualar la funcionalidad de PB, pero esta es invatible para el manejo de datos... larga vida a PB
Power Builder es uno de los lenguajes que mas utilizo para mis aplicaciones, debido a que simplifica bastante los procesos en cuanto a validaciones. muchas gracias
power builder esta para llorar.
Power Builder is a great tool to develop tradional Windows Based applications but it needs to provide better support for developing Web Based applications. Power Builder needs to keep up with the technology, they are always playing catch-up to Microsoft technologies, by the time they start supporting a technology Microsoft is already two technologies ahead
Power Builder is a lagacy system that is prone to developer error during open system cultural demands.
Power builder is very powerfull tools
PowerBuilder .Net should be delivered immediately.
PowerBuilder and Enterprise Application Server can be a formidable combination. Please continue to invest in both and make them the leading edge technology of choice.
PowerBuilder como herramienta es muy buena, y sobre todo con el concepto de tecnología abierta se va integrando y trabajando en conjunto con las herramientas existentes en el mercado, dándote el dinamismo y flexibilidad que hoy en día las empresas necesitan en sus aplicativos.
PowerBuilder es bueno para el desarrollo de software, pero creo que falta dar mas informacion por parte de los creadores de PowerBuilder sobre como manejar las API's. Hay muy poca informacion sobre este tema y la que existe, esta en ingles, deberian mostrarla en Castellano. Un abrazo.
Powerbuilder es una herramienta muy poderosa, que facilita a los desarrolladores al momento de crear sistemas. Tener soporte para linux y la integraciàn con servicios web, sería aditivo bastante importante.
PowerBuilder esta AGONIZANDO !!!!!! se dejo poner la \"pata\" de .Net pero lejos !!!!!! NO es comercial ... que pesar porque es un gran producto ... pero Sybase se \"durmio en el veneno\"
Powerbuilder has always been a great tool. It's just to bad that management does not see it that way.
PowerBuilder has served us very well over the years. Even though I indicated that we maintain apps rather than build new ones, it is mentioning that we add a tremendous amount of NEW functionality to this application every year. My requests of you are as follows: 1. Please keep developing new functionality. 2. Return PB to the forefront of technology solutions in the eyes of the development community by handling my request #1 as well as expand/improve your marketing efforts.
PowerBuilder is a great RAD tool for client/server environment. Now PB should shift its focus to web applications and web 2.0
Powerbuilder is a very excellent tool. I feel its poor only from the GUI side.. Any future changes to make the PB applications have more rich GUI look and feel is what i am expecting..
PowerBuilder is a very good software
PowerBuilder is a very robust development tool, and in a real sense a RAD tool. But due to its poor marketing strategies it has lost its charm, if the same was with Microsoft PB could have been the most used tool in the market, so sybase should start thinking positively to retain and gain existing and new customers.
Powerbuilder is a wonderful client/server development tool!
Powerbuilder is close to dead, there are few new projects using it and few jobs advetised. I am a long-term Powerbuilder developer but I feel I need to move on to another language avoid my career dying too. Powerbuilder needs to move much more quickly to seamless .Net integration and enable website deployment otherwise there will soon be no developers and no projects left for anyone to care what happens next!
Powerbuilder is definitely a superior development tools for quick and efficient application development. Too bad the industry is shifting towards technology that requires a lot more development time without much gain for the end user.
Powerbuilder is exponentially better than anything else I've used. It's a shame it's losing popularity.
Powerbuilder is going toward .Net but we need to see our generated code in .Net languages, so that we can modify the code in .Net environment, if needed.
Powerbuilder is now only used for legacy applications (admittedly the bulk of our business). We cannot wait for Powerbuilder to catch up with .NET 3.5
PowerBuilder is one of the best and most productive development tools available. We are glad when our competitors move to Java or .NET because we can code circles around them. This means we can make more profit or beat the competition with a lower price.
PowerBuilder is powerful client server development tool and it seems it is making very good progress towards web development. I have strong confident in this tool and I would like to stick with this forever.
Powerbuilder is probably one of the most powerful tools out there when it comes to programmingà just a pity Sybase doesnÆt market it better and it is busy being replaced slowly but surely with other less powerful tools.
Powerbuilder is proves best in every field but all new projects afraid to take PB as the tool since they think its old and less resources available for this. In such condition what will the future of Powerbuilder and Powerbuilder related jobs ?
Powerbuilder is still a great dev tool. I wouldn't change it for the world ! I hope Sybase will stay around and continues with Powerbuilder... John
Powerbuilder is still the fastest way to make non web applications.
PowerBuilder is the perfect product for our internal application development environment. Straigh-forward development environment. We use PowerBuilder to support bullet-proof mission-critical applications. No experimenting with new tools just for the sake that a new tools exists.
Powerbuilder is very friendly to use! There are some serious errors in PB that aren't repaired in EBFs.
powerbuilder is very usefull and fast development tool and very easy to use this tool. but we did not use with .net
PowerBuilder promotion and exposure in Australia is poor. In the 1990's there was a thriving PB community. Now it is hard to get PB developers and most PB applications are viewed by large companies as legacy applications.
Powerbuilder provides basically everything I need to develop an application for a desktop PC. We use version 9 but will be upgrading to the latest version soon. The web integration in version 9 is pretty shakey. We have waited for the latest version to upgrade to take advantage of the .Net integration. It appears that Sybase has decided to build atop of Microsoft technologies as opposed to reinventing the wheel. This is a great decision. I've looked at the marketing material for the next version and I hope when I get a chance to evaluate the latest PB version that it will meet my expectations. My next task is to build a website.
PowerBUilder sigue siendo una muy buena herramienta de desarrollo , pero tiene que mejorar para mantener su segmento de mercado.
Powerbuilder una excelente herramienta de desarrollo
PowerBuilder was the best Client/server toolset in the mid 90s when we selected it. It continues to be one of the most powerful software development toolsets available. I wish Sybase marketed it more/better. My agency has a huge investment in complex business and environmental rules implemented through PB code; it would be nearly impossible to replace that investment in another platform. I'm not really sure if we\'ll attempt to migrate to PB 11.x this year or not, we have many projects underway.
presenta entornos muy flexibles
probablemente migraciàn de las aplicaciones powerbuilder hacia Java en unos 2 años. (por desgracia).
Producto Costoso, vamos a llevar todas nuestras aplicaciones PB a JAVA y .NET MEDITEN lo que están haciendo
Produits beaucoup trop chere
Proporcionar mayor informaciàn via web sobre lo ·ltimo de power builder, como manuales, etc..Como haria para integrar usuarios desarrolladores en Power Builder. Esperamos su respuesta. Atte. Jose Luis Ortega Rodriguez
Que arreglen el rich con dw!!!!!, que se pueda mezclar dw normales con dw rich
Que por favor integren el PB pa Linux
Que presenten su ayuda en español
Question 1 would be more: between 2 - 5 years, but anything can change between now and then
Quisiera que hubieran ejemplos en .net para poderlas aplicar en mi empresa
Quisiera, que por intermedio de mi correo, me pudieran mantener actualizado en todo lo nuevo de power builder, quisiera conocer mas de power builder 10 y 11, a travez de manuales, cursos, documentos, soy Colombiano especialmente del Departamento del Chocà, PowerBuilder es lo mejor que me ha podido suceder, la considero como la herramienta mas poderosa para desarrollar aplicaciones de 4 generacion, hablando de generaciones que me pueden decir de la nueva generacion que se nos avecina como es la POA (Programaciàn Orientada en Aspecto).
Remains a great tool for what it was designed for - rapid dB client/serverapplication development tool.
REVISAR LA FORMA DE LICENCIAMIENTO DE PB11 ACTUALMENTE EXISTE MUCHOS IDE LIBRE
Sadly, our current plan is to be 100% off of PowerBuilder and converted to .NET within the next two years. .NET resources are plentiful, PowerBuilder resources are becoming more and more scarce.
SE ESPERA UNA VERSION EN ESPANOOOOLLLL....
Se necesitan desarrollar objetos mas bonitos visualmente, permitir tener varios estilos por ejemplo en botones y ventanas, o la creacion de un objeto panel o un objeto para los menus de la aplicacion. Evolucionar en la elegacia y sorpreder con el aspecto de las aplicaciones que el se pueden desarrollar a parte de seguir con un sistema robusto. Hay que ser mas detallistas con el aspecto por que es lo que se vende al cliente
Se puede generar con PB11 un website con toda la apariencia web en las aplicaciones como si lo hicieramos con Dreamwever (apariencia web, botones, barra de botones, weblinks, fondos, animacion, etc, algo como www.terra.es)
Seamless integration with internet tools like emailing should be improved. graphical interface its also something that end users care about on deployed applications.
Sencillamente una herramienta genial
Senores de PWB el unico inconveniente es al utilizarlo con windows vista favor si existe alguna actualizacion URGENTE para powerbuilder v10 favor notificarme a la direccion [email protected], ya q\' todos los equipos nuevos estan llegando con WVista y se necesita una actualizacion del mismo con URGENCIA. Favor relacionarse con Microsoft.
Seria excelente que el producto PowerBuilder se integrara a niveles de pequeños grupos de desarrolladores y tambien en escuelas, universidades, etc. Miro que a nivel de marketing aun estan a años luz de otros productos inferiores. Me encanta PowerBuilder!
SERIA IMPORTANTE QUE DENTRO DEL DEBUGS SE PUDIERA REALIZAR ANALISIS DE IMPACTO SI NECESIDAD DE TENER UNA HERRAMIENTA ALTERNA QUE INCREMENTA LOS COSTOS.
Several times our company has declared "no new applications will be built using PB" and 5-years later we are still building new applications where PB is used to create the interface. Why? We've found nothing else with the richness and integration power of PB. We are currently looking at migrating from PB 8.0.3 to PB 10.5. I manage a development team of 3 PB developers and we have projects planned for the next 3 years running.
Several years there are rumours about migrating from PowerBuilder to a pure .Net-architecture, but as long as .net-database-applications are less maintainable there is a good argument for continuing with PowerBuilder.
SI MEJORARA LA DOCUMENTACION DE AYUDA, SERIA UN GRAN LOGRO, AUN CONSERVA LA ANTIQUISISMA PRESENTACIËN Y NO ES MUY DIDACTICA
Si tienen la solucion para exportar a Excell desde un DataWindows
Since we are almost exclusively using PB it is increasingly difficult to communicate with other (external) applications since they ask for XML, webservices etc. We don't have that knowledge (would be nice is the PB doc includes an overvieuw of the required knowledge to take advantage of these new features) and objects/functions to support in this program to program communication. As alway it is extremely difficult to find new staff (perminent and temporary) with the required PB knowledge.
Sinceramente, no es bueno depender del .NET en aplicaciones web, ya que Java tiene mucho mejor soporte y el mismo tiempo que va trabajando, que se de mayor enfasis en aplicaciones web con Java
Some ide changes can make the work much easier. For instance, right click on a function in the code should give a context menu with the option to jump to it. Another missing nice right-click option would be to format the script code (check eclipse context-menu to see some other nice ideas)
Some Problems developing Webform Application with PB 11.2
Sorry I don't use PB! I just want to know where it is headed
soy nuevo en el tema, pero si es q solo funciona bajo IIS no lo voy a usar mucho.
still crashes quite a bit, but being a user with 13 years of pb you come to expect that. also the debugger is still quite unstable.
Still doing the job quite nicely! Our Appeon shell gives us what we need for Web Development.
Still fastest time to market dev environment, makes .NET a lot faster to work with too.
Still have to find a more performant development tool
Still love PB for what it does, but the tool is not supported well and PB developers are losing ground especially in the third-party tools market. Where the datawindow once reigned, open source and commerical products are catching up for developers in the .Net and Java space. Soon, if not already, the datawindow will provide little competitive edge.
Still PB is the Best...please market it in proper way and find someway to attract new developers to PB.Wish you all the best
Still think PB is one of the greatest development tools. Keep it going.
sur la version 11, il est possible de passer une application en winForm ou webForm. Cependant, la version en webForm a un design affreux. Je n'est pas reussi a installer du flash facilement, le postback est pour l'ensemble de la page et pas pour la Datawindow que l'on vient de retrivé comme dans ajax
Sybase brings alway the needed extentions when it's to late, because everybody did mak his workaround ... App Server PLuging should be developer license and in Standard package !!! NO two different IDE\'s for different targets !!!!!
Sybase debe desarrollar una tecnología propia en Webform y no aportar a la plataforma .NET
Sybase has to concentrate on selling the PB, Also make the customers to use PB for new developments
Sybase has to market one of the most productive development environemts avaialble or it will die!
Sybase needs to push the marketing of APPEON. A great tool that no one knows about . . .
Sybase roadmaps take FOREVER! They need to step on the GAS!
Sybase SA suck. They don't market Powerbuilder and even speak out against it.
Sybase se ha dormido en sus laureles con el Power Builder, mucho se ha demorado en hacer los cambio orientados a aplicaciones distribuidas, el EaServer como solucion no era optimo, recien se esta pudiendo usar el IIS, en la empresa estamos migrando al Net 2008
Sybase should advertise more to promote PB. I recently received an email for an online session from ideablade (I do not know the correct name. They advertise in MSDN), a microsoft partner on how to get rid of powerbuilder.
Tener como retroalimentacion más seguida, sobre sus nuevos avances, y probabilidades de interactuar con los diferentes sistemas operativos, VMS. LINUX. UNIX, ORACLE, LINUX, PL/SQL, SHELL DE UNIX. Procedimientos que se ejecuten en Unix, disparados por el ambiente Powe Builder, Gracias.
TENGO PROBLEMAS EN EL TIPO DE DATOS FECHA CUANDO HAGO UN PROVEDIMEINTO ALMACENADO EN SQLA SERVER 2000 Y LO LLAMO CON UN DATAWINDOW
Tengo q aceptarlo PB es lo Mejor para desarrollo en BD
Thanks for this survey Gracias por la encuesta y sigan asi!
The .Net integration fails to meet expectations when I analyze it on a 1:1 base. Especially after speaking directly to PB representative in Israek
The Company should keep the flag flying.
The Datawindow is still perfect, the language itself is quite allright. However PB tends to crash a lot and being more of a C++/C# programmer I like more control over the editing environment, for instance seeing the procedure definitions themselves instead of having to go into edit source to see them
The Datawindow is still the best data access tool around.
The datawindow is terrific, keep up the good work, but spend some time on working out the 'quirks' of the actual development environment. They are many and varied, and odds are you already are aware of them. I understand some of the irritants I am referring to have been resolved in PB11, however the small non-profit mental health center I work for does not have the budget to upgrade this year (we are currently at PB10.5). Thanks for a solid, productive product.
The different versions will be well compatible with each other.
The different versions will be well compatible with each other.
The IDE is NOT user friendly... You should have a look at what Microsoft did with VisualStudio to see how efficient that Development tool is compared to the ever crashing PowerBuilder IDE... Source Control integration is just BAD in PB9... So many annoying flickers in the library tree control when you check-out/undo check-out of an object... Driving me crazy.
The install packages could be better.
The test point will be if companies will decide to start a new projects with Power-Builder !
The web services and .net integration in v9 promised by Sybase was virtually a fraud. When we found that out, we decided to move away from anything Sybase for good. Sybase Australia has proved difficult to work with and Sybase is, in our opinion, developer-unfriendly. We think Sybase\'s future (and PowerBuilder\'s) is not good.
Ther\'re lots of features that developers are waiting for years, all they have to do is check ISUG requests. after PB12 is delivered I'd personally prefer restoring Linux as a deployment platform.
There is no other object oriented programming tool available to develop database oriented application as user friendly like powerbuilder.I emphasis again that the weak in support and lack of campaign is one of the reason for the less users in asian countries.
There\'s lots of functionalities that should be native not done by external services. Please speed up with PB12. We\'re all waiting for IDE,DW Graph,.Net integration improvements.
These stats come from my client where I am working as a consultant.
Though the product is good and easy to develop enterprise applications.
Thx for developping powerbuilder continously always regarding the important technologies (xml, .net, soap, etc.). We work with web services (ASP .NET). It works fine. We try to bring our powerbuilder software to .NET WinForm with PB11. But the results are not bugfree although no error message or unsupported feature message is shown. The .NET-version is much slower, this must be improved. Linux version would be highly appreciated. More and more people want Linux as front end.
Todo cuanto sirva para mejorar la herramienta y puedar terminar con mitos de .NET ya sea ASP.Net o aplicaciones Windows es muy valiosa, por favor sigan adelante y no permitan que se muera esta gran Herramienta Edgar Ecuador
too focused on microsoft market... desperately need support for other OS
Too many crashs !!!
trabajo desde la version 4 es excelente esero siga adelante y no desaparezca y se ataque la integracion con punto net y se de capacitacion que no existe mucho
Tuve muchos problemas con algunos resultados de Datawindows en la version 10.x pero al actualizar con el parche se solucionaron.Definitivamente el DW es una poderosa Herramienta, Me gustaria mas informacion sobre como poner mi aplicativo en la web sin muchos cambios. se que con .net.
Un poco de Portabilidad a otros sistemas operativos como linux o solaris
Unfortunately it is not possible to install PB 11 on two workstations: office and home. This is the reason that we plan to select another product.
Unfortunately my \"superiors\" have deemed PowerBuilder a dead language and we are only allowed to maintain existing applications. (We have about 40). I on the other hand believe there is nothing better then PowerBuilder for RAD.
Unfortunately, we are migrating all of our applications to asp .net / C#
Urge un compilador para Linux. Mejorar CrossTab. Tener reporteador nativo, fácil de usar por los usuarios finales.
Utilizamos PFC en nuestra aplicacion, hemos implementado el tema de seguridad, y la utilizacion de las clases que esta provee
Van a sacar una versiàn de PB11 para windows 2000 como plataforma de desarrollo. Gracias
Very Good
Very good RAPID development tool in general
Very nice tool to business applications but Sybase killed it by not marketing this product. Developing applications with this tool is so quick compared to other tools like .NET or Java. But nobody wants to invest in PB as everyone thinks/believes that this tool is in its final stretch. I still do not understand how such a wonderful product is coming to an end like this.
Very useful Client/Server Tool, But lacks latest features avalible in C#/Java for internet and multi tier applications.
vivo enamorado de power builder es lo maximo
We have been using PB for a long time and still find it an excellent tool for development. We intend to keep using it and are pleased to see the future plan that Sybase has for the product.
We are deploying our Client Server PB apps across Canada using CITRIX. The web group is attempting to use PB 11, but so far they are not happy with the results.
We are having using the SOAP calls from PB10.2 to a generic web service. It seems PB does not put out standard SOAP xml which is causing a lot of problems in testing. It would be nice to have better documentation on SOAP and what code PB will actually generate in XML
We are not a Microsoft shop and wish to have more support for Java and XML
We are towards the end of migrating to VB .Net and only have a few applications remaining in PB.
We are waiting Linux-ready Powerbuilder. Nowadays Linux\'s market keep growing and we have to be ready to build the application using Powerbuilder for Linux. The datawindow/datastore is Platinum-key of Powerbuilder on developing database connected application.
we don't use PB11 because of licening model. Condition compile (ifdef... like C++) is really needed. Multilingual support is realy needed (datawindow, composite fields in datawindows).
We have 5 of us using Powerbuilder 9. Three others have migrated to PB11. We as developers like PB very much for developing windows quickly. Our business is DNA profiling (Paternity testing, Convicted Offender testing, and Bone Marrow testing. Our manager is trying to find a replacement for PB, but it will be hard.
We have a large application built using PB and EAF running on EAServer and an Oracle database. Please keep supporting / enhancing the web DataWindow!
We have a number of large software applications that are written in PowerBuilder and, for obvious reasons, we have no intention of ever changing them to anything else. I'm glad to see that Sybase hasn't dropped it's commitment to PB and I hope they keep it \"alive\" for many more years to come. Who knows, with a little effort in the advertising/marketing process, PB may (someday) gain some \"traction\" on Visual Basic...
we have been waitin for the version that supports .Net for 2 years now and we hope it would be avaliable soon
We love Powerbuilder. We're very sorry to see Sybase putting so much effort into .NET and nothing into Linux. We believe that the Windows platform is dead and Linux is the future. Native Linux support is key to our continued use of Powerbuilder.
WE WOULD LIKE THE WEB SERVICES INTEGRATION TO BE INDEPENTANT FROM THE CHOICE OF THE APPLICATION SERVER NOT OBLIGATORY EAS.
We would love to develop .net applications for web forms using PB, but the lack of browser support drives us away.
We'll wait improvement converting pb to java
WebDW support for cross browser syntax (Mozilla) will be great help
While I'm still going back and forth between PB 10 & 11, I don't like the UI changes made in 11. Maybe when I start to use 11 on a regular basis I'll feel differently, however I don't think that will be the case. The new icons are not good. Half the time I can't tell if they are enabled or not.
while Powerbuilder is great, it is not marketable skill.
While writing a script or code in PowerBuilder please provide a complete online syntax help for reduce a time for typing script.
Why Sybase is not marketing this wonderfull product. Sybase should be thinking about bundling PB desktop free of charge with their other products. Also PB and EAserver should be bundled with ASE.
will be able to give our feed back once the pb version is upgraded to 11.x
wish powerbuilder is a unbeatable, indispensable tool for development.
wish powerbuilder is a unbeatable, indispensable tool for development.
With only two or three PB developers, our company has created numerous applications in a short period of time which end up benefiting several departments within the company. Our systems are robust, very maintainable, and are the envy of the other IT groups. PowerBuilder rocks when done by the right people with the proper experience.
Would like a stable development environment.
would like more frequent news about powerbuilder along with magazines and newsletters.
Would like to see Powerbuilder Web applications run on Firefox browsers and be hosted on Unix Machines at some point in the near future.
Yo soy desarrollador y estoy enamorado de la facilidad para la distribucion de mis aplicaciones nada de instaladores ni nada raro, y los pocos recurso que consume, corro clientes hasta en pentium 100Mhz con win 98 y 64 de ram. Bueno la data windows es un tema aparte la debe haber creado Dios mismo, estoy muy contento de haber conocido Power Builder no quiero desarrollar en ningun otro lenguaje.
Yo uso PB desde la Versión 3.0 y tristemente, veo como cada día menos empresas en mi país quieren el producto, esto debido al elevado costo que tiene el mismo más el costo de aprendizaje, powerBuilder sigue siendo en mi opniniàn, un producto excelente en cuanto al manejo de DATA se refiere, pero le falta mucho en la parte grafica, la falta de aplicativos de terceros,etc... Por ejemplo la facilidad con que los productos infragistics se asocian a Visual Studio .net permitiendo crear interfaces gráficas mucho más enriquecidas. Lamentablemente mi percepciàn es que Sybase está aniquilando el producto con su pesima estrategia de mercadeo y los que hemos desarrollado una especializaciàn con powerbuilder ahora nos encontramos en la PICOTA ya que, no se solicitan nuestros servicios para proyectos en PB, más a·n se solicitan programadores JAVA para llevar las aplicaciones hechas en PB a JAVA, OUUUCHHHH. Sds.
You are sending this survey around the world, and yet in Q6 you misspelt "Sybase ASE" (as well as "developer" in Q12)! What does this say about your quality control? or whether you give a dam about Sybase/PB.
you have killed PB! Sybase is slowly dieing in a growing market... You do not even do reserches on a negative responses:)