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first question is presuming that PB is obsolete.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