For several years, PowerBuilder tends toward improving its features
concerning the developments of web applications but without really
seducing developers. However, it's worth keeping an eye on it
with the launch of PB11.
Actually, only 14% of the respondents use PowerBuilder to develop
web applications in 2006 against 20% in 2005.
Still, it is interesting to notice that nearly the half of the
PB developers answered they would use it for this kind of development
in the future.
In 2006, only 10% of the respondents use PocketBuilder to develop
their applications and 37% among them intend
to use it in the future.
Only 8% out of the respondents use Datawindow.Net to develop
their applications.Net.
However, 47% foresee to use it in the future.
As for the question 7, it will be interesting to compare the answers
after the official launch of PB11.
At present
24% of PowerBuilder applications are multilingual, but 19% of the
respondents eventually plan to make their applications available in
several languages.
One more time, Microsoft
confirms its leadership in this ranking (41%) and slightly widen the
gap with Java (39%) in comparison to 2005.
This question clearly shows us that the firms intend to use at the
same time different development tools.
The interest for a better integration to .NET is still
high (36%) but has been overtaken by the proposition of an improvement
of Windows graphical objects (37%). PowerScript improvement collects
35% of answers as well.
The other proposals are also of interest as the answers are quoted
by developers at least at 20%.
PowerBuilder is still
appreciated by PowerBuilder developers, in spite of a slight decrease
of the note given by the respondents:
| English |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Make sure Appeon stays aligned with the
changes made in PowerBuilder. |
| 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!) |
| Its a great product but is not marketed
well. |
| 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. |
| For the improvements above, here is my
priority: 1) .NET 2) GUI 3) PowerScript 4) XML 5) Web Services
6) NVUO |
| 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 |
| The best tool out there, but quickly
losing market share. |
| 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()! |
| Version 9.xx is buggy |
| 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. |
| The best web & CS tool |
| PB is way too far behind on the technology
curve as well as the GUI curve. Customer demand has necessitated
us migrating to VS2005. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I wish Sybase would add resources to
the development and marketing of PB. |
| It would be really nice to have PB objects
and components compile to MSIL. More to the point: a true
PB.NET"." |
| We are interested in PowerBuilder's evolution
and their marketing plan to sell this product in the future. |
| 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). |
| Very productive tool, that would be improved
by further integration with .Net framework and servers |
| 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. |
| Very good tools for what it does. Unfortunately
the market is driving us to open source web developement. |
| PB server as a RAD tool. It can be improved,
but if it was perfect Microsoft would buy it. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| PowerBuilder is the most productive application
development tool I have used in my 25 years of programming |
| 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. |
| 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"" |
| KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. LONG LIVE POWERBUILDER. |
| Using it for 8 years, still learning
its features. |
| Best RAD I ever worked with. |
| Moving off PB and moving to .NET |
| 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." |
| PowerBuilder will be more dead than it
is now. |
| PowerBuilder is the best tool in it's
class. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| If only we can convert PB apps and not
tie them to EA Server, it will be great. |
| 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 :( |
| Go .NET or bust! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Needs good marketing. PB would have been
no 1 tool, if Microsoft had bought! |
| PB is not very popular in Quebec. |
| 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" |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Would like to hear more information about
the future and what is new with powerbuilder. |
| Powerbuilder is good programming language
and should be marketed more aggressively. |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| Due to the lack of linux support, we
plan on moving to the Eiffel development environment. |
| Deleting ancestor menu items is still
a pain in the butt. Why doesn't the PFC ever evolve? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Improve stability and reliability |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| PB 10 very unstable |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Falta mejorar la parte de desarrollo
web |
| 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. |
| Powerbuilder is becoming the Legacy tool. |
| Product advt is required |
| 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. |
| A very flexible tool with a moderate
to easy learning curve for building interesting, detailed
and functional Client Server applications and Web Reports. |
| We have had great success using Appeon
to convert our PB applications to run on the Web! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| There's nothing particularly wrong with
the product - but I NEVER see any marketing for it.... |
| We use Appeon for PowerBuilder for Web
Enablement and new Web Development. |
| 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. |
| Need ability to generate nonvisual service
objects in .Net ASAP. Don't want to wait for full visual .net
implementation. |
| 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? |
| Please improve client-server functionalities
and minimize web integration development |
| 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. |
| Web development should be user friendly
and should support IIS web deployement with datawindow compatibility. |
| I've been laid off from (PB) work because
my ex-company decided to outsourced software development to
India. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Great tool to help application building. |
| Though PB is a powerful tool, Why is
n't so popular as other tools? |
| PB is the best Windows development tool
still. But it is not a preferred web development platform. |
| 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... |
| Enjoy working with the product. |
| Make the license less expensive. |
| It is behind in the visual presentation
for menus, tabs and graphs. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| We are not getting PB material (like
PB Books etc...) |
| Marketing by Sybase required more. |
| sdkgqsgklmlk |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| need stronger emphasis on Java support
(over .NET) + better graphics and stronger, more consistent
internationalisation support (right-to-left, mirroring, fonts,
calendar) alongside Unicode |
| No comments this year ! So far so good
! |
| My life would be miserable without the
datawindow :) |
| PB is a strong tool, wishes more people
would use it instead of .net |
| 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). |
| Datawindow (XML) improvements |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I love PB so much that, I just hate to
code with other tools! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I am leaving this company to become consulting
independent. |
| We have now used PB since 1993 and are
very pleased. The best tool in the world. |
| 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. |
| Lot of bugs ... |
| I would like know all on integration
of PB and Web. |
| Mostly using Powerbuilder for our older
clientserver legacy systems. |
| 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." |
| Needs money, resources, marketing. Needs
money, resources, marketing. Needs money, resources, marketing.
Needs money, resources, marketing.... |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| From the point of marketing, Sybase didn't
bother to market a good product, instead focusing on mobile
wireless computing. |
| 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. |
| With Windows Vista just around the corner,
PowerBuilder should be planning right now, to prevent a repeat
with what happend with Windows XP. |
| powerbuilder is great..! |
| 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. |
| More stability of PB is requestednecessary! |
| 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. |
| We need urgently connection from PocketBuilder
to MSSQLServer!!! It would also help to have direct connection
to EA Server. |
| Problems with components in EAServer
when using database access should be solved. The alternative
is bind the object to one CPU ans ocassionally fails. |
| We are missing a 'indenter' for script:
after copiing script fro another script, we need to reindenter
the whole script |
| PB 9.0 build 8565, no es una versión
estable se cae continuamente, la integración con SCC, es compleja. |
| 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 |
| Long Life to PB! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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? |
| I just love PB. It's the best language
I've used in all my 30 years of programming. |
| 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. |
| For PBNI, please add Borlanc C++ builerDelphi
interface. |
| 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. |
| Less docbooksguidetutorialhelpexampleconsultant
on PB's 3 tier application development. PB <--> EAServer.
Extreamly less info on PBWF (PowerBuilder Web Framework). |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| Please not too much using resources |
| Added in example code : - smart-card
- barcode - RFID - RS-232 - UTP etc. |
| option to formatted report to text file,
to export formatted report to excel and lots of other queries |
| option to formatted report to text file,
to export formatted report to excel and lots of other queries |
| Marketing of PowerBuilder should be developed. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| It is good tool for data centric application |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Market it properly |
| 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. |
| THis is the the Best tool I ever worked
on for the database applications |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| PB itself is not enough to respond today's
requirement anymore, unfortunatelly. |
| PowerBuilder,good tools |
| Provide a flexible things to develope
web application instead of complicated. |
| too late .... |
| Please bring the Linux version soon.
Otherwise u are dead. |
| Its a great tool to work in |
| PowerBuilder has no reliable supportive
sites or agents in our region - Middle East - Jordan. Alas,
it seems that it is not popular in this region. |
| The PB patches should pass QA before
sending them to the programmers |
| Please work on this .NET integration,
in order to prevent many PB developers from switching to .NET |
| Any plans to bundle EA Server and Data
Window.net in later versions at about the same price? |
| Very stable tool. We could able to code
all our applications and reports with PB. No drastic change
like what happen to VB (to .Net) users. |
| Technically it's a great product which
allows a very speedy delivery. But it's positioned more as
a legacy product in the market, and therefore sadly less and
less new development is done with PB. |
| i like pb |
| PB is a great development environment
and Sybase continues to keep improving its feature set. However,
it would be nice to see its share of the market grow a bit. |
| PowerBuilder is ok, IDE is too unstable.
Datawindow.NET looks great but doesn't support browsers other
than IE very well. |
| It would be great if the .NET integration
was delivered earlier than expected. |
| We migrated to v9 expecting big things
in Web Services and .net integration. PB could not deal with
quite simple Web Services and the .net integration was a marketing
lie (use Web Services!). That did it for us - we're telling
customers to get off it - no future. |
| I think that Powerbuilders environment
(ability to handle many objects - regeneration etc) and difficulty
to develop complex code structures (complex OO code structures)
is letting it down in the market today. Being able to integrate
with other languages such as .NET or Java is great but the
complexities of maintaining code in this situation makes it
a difficult sell. |
| After 10 years of using PB intensively
I have come across many PB fickle bugs, and some limitations.
PB was previously 'the' software to use, however now jobs
are becoming limited. |
| Have used PB since version 4 and absolutely
love it. |
| No support means time to look elsewhere |
| Powerbuilder releases need to be more
stable when integrated with source control software and work
tracking software like Serena Tracker and Version Manager.
OR A Powerbuilder do not do list" needs to be released with
the software if scenarios are known to cause PB to become
unstable and crash. PB10 seems to crash several times a day
for developers who are devoting all their time to coding within
the IDE throughout the day and the loss of their work and
train of thought in the last few minutes is frustrating." |
| We have used PB since 1992 & been developing
Web applications since 1997. The only real issue we have is
in delivering reports via PDF to the browser. The Ghost method
as documented is far too complicated there should be a native
saveaspdf function that doesn't require additional software
and complex code to get it to work. |
| light! light! light! |
| Powerbuilder is excellent, it's only
problem is bad marketing. |
| Large legacy apps keep us aligned with
PB. Retraining and re-developing are not practical for us.
We hope Sybase keeps supporting and improving PB with an eye
to backwards compatibility. |
| We need more visual improvements in pb.
and supports to the earlier versions like PB.6x |
| PB has lost so much market with .net
and Java. PB used to have a stronger precense in the market
4 years ago. Now, we can see that PB is lossing market gradually.
Not sure what Sybase is doing regarding this. |
| we recruit VB progemmers and introduce
them to PB. After that, except for financial gains, these
programmers don't want to work with VB. Because, PB is very
simple yet powerful. For Business Informtion Systems such
as Integrated Accounting Packages, ERPs, Warehouse/ Logistics/
CRM/ HRM & Payroll Systems, and any other complex software
development project, we think an Object- orientd tool which
could be easily learnt, using the simpler language BASIC,
is very important. PowerBuilder suits us very well. Infact,
we a company which develops both standard products and custom-built
application-software find that along with the PowerDesigner
tools, PB and Sybase ASA gives so much of flexibility and
creative solution development power. Problems we face are,
due to lack of marketing, the market is forgetting this company
(Sybase) and its tools. Its becoming more and more difficult
to convince new customers with these technologies, because,
they look for the technologies as well. Further, the developer
community also should be trained, may be even free, so that
the followers of these technologies can increse in number.
Look at the folowing the Free Linux is getting. |
| Dw is its strength. Keep loading / enhancing
this painter. |
| Limited PowerBuilder resources avalliable
in the market. |
| In my openion, only Marketing is a different
between Power Biulder and Microsoft product. PB is better
than Microsoft products, but PB is not market in Pakistan/
Asia, it makes difference. |
| PB is a very RAD and helpful tool. Some
internal issues, if removed, will lead it to more stable tool.
There is room for enhancements as far as scripting is concerned,
integration with other tools and deployment options. |
| A product which should be ranked foremost
for its simple and easy interface and working but with tremendous
application processing power. Keep up the good work, people. |
| It's a rapid development tool but nt
able to collect more manpower on it due to popularity of .Net
Application |
| PowerBuilder has lost too much ground
to products which are now more widely accepted. It is now
viewed by both us and our clients as a legacy product which
will be phased out as applications require major enhancements.
Very disappointing that Sybase has facilitated this by a lack
of marketing and vision of the future. |
| related to DB you are Strongly,graphic
and web should improve |
| i think pb is best database realated
application development tool better then any microsoft product
in that field. the only thing that lack its future development
is lack of marketing statergy from sybase . i think if it
was microsoft powerbuilder then it would have been more popular
then any other database realated application development tool. |
| I wish PB had the OS support(like VB
has windows) then it would have been a more popular |
| Need proper notes. For example to save
a blob object we have no proper notes. Support is important. |
| GrapHIC sql building should be improved
to allow more compleX sql queries |
| I love working in powerbuilder and its
scope should be grown furhter. |
| Please improve the debugger! PB stretches
to the newest technologies, but its foundations are unstable.
The debugger is unstable and unexpected. Debugging a complex
application is a real pain in the ***. |
| powerbuilder 10 application terminates
when ever i close some objects during developemnt. this was
observed in the runtime also. iam not able to find out the
solution instead of opening it again. Please rectify this
problem as early as possible. Please publish a detailed elobrated
migration problems. i migrated some of the applications for
testing purpose and i faced so many problems which i didnt
find in sybase website. i had to find them out and recitfy
them. Thanks and Regards Veerendra B |
| The PowerBuilder Concept is Excellent..
But the implementation is not strong enough. When I say Not
strong enough, I mean The Stability of the Debugger, The looks
of the IDE - and above all - It's stability. Me and my programmers
meet fatal errors and exceptions during design time every
day. |
| Powerbuilder should work on linux and
on 64 bit microprocessors. Also, native database driver support
for SQL Server 10 should be provided instead of the OLE DB
drivers. Powerbuilder is the best IDE and best tool ever seen
by me and the market. |
| If PB 11 could support DotNet Web forms
development and if it really works(?) that would put PB back
as popular tool for DB app developers. |
| Solid product. |
| It will help us if sybase has some sample
programming/Code and Help library. One of some problem to
developed with Power Builder is we find difficult how to get
power builder reference. |
| You guys are doing a great wrong to powebuilder
developers in my organization. PowerBuilder is a very good
tool, better than java or .NET, or any other Technology I
know, in regards to Rapid Appliacation Developlment. You keep
investing in web support and in merging with other technologies
such as .NET, but you forget your customer backbone. These
do not use PB for web development or for .Net Integration.
We need a good competition for Java and other technologies,
and not an attidute of if you can't beat them, join them".
I believe in PB, and you already have a better tool than any
ohter available in the global market. The only thing left
to do is to start fighting in the public opinion arena! I
am tired of hearing people saying: "powerbuilder is dead".
I have been developing in PB for more than 5 years, and I
think you should start promoring this tool on the iouter image
level. Java is much more popular not because it is better,
but because it's people made it famous and a part of the current
fassion. In my humble opinion, you should do the same. I am
not a maketing person, or a business man. However, I am aware
of financial calculations and motives, and if your actions
are motivated by such reasons, I don't blame you. One must
do what needs to be done in order to survive. Keep doing your
best, in hope that PB becomes the Java of tomorrow and not
the Cobol of Yesterday... Best Regards, Guy." |
| Powerbuilder is gooooood :p |
| I have been using PowerBuilder for more
than ten years. Its really a very powerful tool, especially
datawindow object. However the trend of world make Java become
the first choose. And Sybase also follow the trend and forget
the beauty of PB. I have test PB10.5 B1, in which, there still
not much improvement. |
| Can not beat this tool for RAD! |
| The Code Examples" that come with the
PowerBuilder installation is a good tool to learn PowerBuilder.
However, if you would also include a sample program that reflects
an application (such as a school where you could enroll students
in classes, assign grades, etc...) that would demonstrate
how to put all of the examples to work in a more realistic
environment that it may be a help in persuading developers
to use PowerBuilder. I suggest getting some of your best programmers
together to create a sophisticated sample application that
correctly uses OO methodology, etc.. so that developers new
to PowerBuilder can see the benefits of using PowerBuilder." |
| in future PB more develope with .NET
and Database make one application, and sure in future PB more
good |
| i'm using powerbuilder since version
3, it's great product. unfortunatily sybase didn't spend much
time to ehnance the GUI of the product since long time. of
course there was some improvement since version 6.x but the
basic pains that developer face still not solved, some of
those pains are: - i'm using version 6.x becuase i found it
very diffecult to use and manage the new docking windows interduced
in verion 7 and later. - the resizing of labels each time
we change some of the properties like font and size is ver
annoying. - the picture resising on picture button and picture
control also very annoing. |
| Powerbuilder has to improve the windows
graphical objects and menu |
| Powerbuilder is easy to lern and is for
DB Applications the best tool, but powerbuilder hasn't same
features that PB Coder need. Some Features: Callbacks (without
terrible PBNI), WindowsForms, full .NET support. The Fixes-List
shoudt be better, because we find bugs in a Runtime and a
Runtime later the bug is corrected and it isnt documentated. |
| sybase taking too long to catch up. other
technologies are stable and available now, 10.5 may introduce
new gui enhancements but we are converting to e.g. .net because
we can benefit now. we will phase out pb over the next year. |
| 1. EAServer pricing is geared to large
corporations. It cannot be cost justified even for small organisation
of 5 users after taking into consideration the development/migration
costs. 2. There is no other way to PB Web development except
through EAServer. 3. MS Is killing PB as far as Web development
with Visual Studio. Why not open provide the means of native
PB (not DW.NET) access to the Web? |
| Sybase should improve its marketting
efforts for Powerbuilder.It an excellent GUI. |
| Wonderful but no marketting |
| good |
| powerbuilder works great for what it
does, but whenever I want to do something special, I have
to jump through all sorts of hoops. If COM/.NET integration
were better, then doing the more difficult / powerful stuff
would be a lot easier. Its very hard to integrate non-pb components |
| 1) Sybase should market and enhance this
great tool like Microsoft does its products. 2) Sybase! Please
implement Windows Graphical Objects improvements" as soon
as possible both in datawindow and window contols so we can
compete with others." |
| COULD YOU PROVE TO ME THAT POWERBUILDER
IS THE POWERFUL TOOLS FOR DEVELOPMENT...? |
| it's sad to say so many company not use
powerbuilder anymore. sybase should enhance object structure
like menu, windows, etc |
| Sybase should pay more attention to Indian
Subcontiaent. Powerbuilder is Very Good,Developer-friendly
& attractive, Only Sybase should give more efforts like Training-Institute,Seminar
etc. and soon Powerbuilder will reach the top of the world. |
| The OleDB driver for MS-SQL has to many
bugs. Therefore I can not upgrade to a newer powerbuilder
version (I am still using PB6.5). Datawindow graphs on several
pages is an importent improvement I am waiting for. The windows
version has not been developed much the last years! |
| go into promoting PB in the education
sector to create a pool of talents. |
| I worked on Visual Basic and Power Builder
as front end development tools where PB is 10 times powerful
than VB. I request only for good marketing and introduction
to developers about new features of PB new versions as well
as step towards no need to migrate the PB application to Web
based application rather PB should support well as we based
tool. Thank You |
| Personally I'd like to see: New OO features,
such as Interfaces, inner / local classes. More use of exceptions
for error handling. Nicer GUI fetures (rollover web style
buttons) |
| The PB need be more fast in check SQL
statement in PBScript. The object graphic" is ungly and with
low resources and low possibilities of customization |
| Sybase is killing PowerBuilder itself.
It's a great delopment tool but with investment could be better. |
| Powerbuilder are the best language with
I work, unhappyly this software no more used. |
| PowerBuilder use to be the best development
tool, in my opinion, but it has been stuck in time, so we
have started to develop in .Net and now it´s difficult to
go back to PB. |
| PowerBuilder é a linguagem de programação
que melhor otimiza a construção e a manutenção de sistemas
em uma grande empresa. |
| 1. Please listen to the Independent Sybase
User Group a lot more. 2. Please beef up PB marketing strategy.
3. Penetrate the school market agressively. 4. Lower the cost.
5. Don't let PB die of natural death |
| My #1 gripe is the how difficult it is
to find information about PB. |
| 1. Is a Good tool for developed database
aplication 2. Easy for maintenance 3. But not Easy For Design
a beautiful Interface Thnk |
| We are using Macromedia Flex for our
web front end and EA Server for our middle tier to develop
new web applications. The combination works very well. No
HTML to deal with, no .NET or Java to deal with. Just PB code
and actionscript. Both are great languages. I wish Sybase
would partner with Macromedia to push this new architecture.
It sure beats the complexity of AJAX and nothing comes close
to the end user experience. |
| Powerbuilder is a very fine product that
is well capable of developing any sort of application. This
is the product that I enjoyed most in my development career.
Presently I am developing Database Driven Application in DotNet
but I still find it very far from near to Powerbuilder style
of development as long as Database Driven Application Development
is concerned. In my opinion what Powerbuilder Company requires
more is Marketing People than any further Technological Development.
The marketing People who can sell the product aggresively
carving out strategies for pricing, advertisement and other
such things. |
| I feel Sybase is not marketing this product
or infact any of its products effectively. |
| EJB client functionality should be improved
a) to support newer jdk versions b) to fix the bugs in the
current implementation c) to support newer ejb specification. |
| I ahve problem in migratin from PB 6.5
to Pb 10. i am unable to receive return values from stored
procedure in pb10. Please help |
| I have been using PB for the last 10
years. It is great. |
| PowerBuilder is great application development
tools. |
| I have been a PowerBuilder consultant
for the last 8 years. I love PowerBuilder. But it's losing
market because of .Net technologies and lack of marketing
from Sybase. |
| Very good product, but poor materials(books)not
available in the market. |
| Looking forward to more improvements
to Datawindow.NET and tighter integration with .NET framework.
Maybe even include as part of Visual Studio .NET 2006 suite?. |
| I am a keen fans of PB from PB4 to PB10.
Good luck to PB and wish it has a more bright future! |
| We need to have Dynamic Variable name
declaration. We must have J2EE auto building for PowerBuilder
Applications, so that we can PowerBuilder Appliations anywhere.
We need to make to support Script Files inside the applications.
so that we can make ERP programs with Powerbuilde. ie. if
a customer need to add a functionality, we need to give provision
for him to make it over the application. And that script should
be a special sort of Script which can be attached with the
application and its language shuld be little business man's
language. Guess you got what exactly i meant. thanks |
| Getting harder and harder to find talented
Powerbuilder developers.. Considering moving to .Net.. The
.Net datawindow is a huge interest. When is version 2.0 due? |
| There are problems with refreshment of
the screen in applications developed in Powerbuilder.There
is no solution provider for this. Powersoft would say it is
the o/s and o/s would say it is related to Powerbuilder. |
| Need better integration with .NET support
for web services specially .NET ENUM (enumurated data type
support in PB 10.5) and more detailed help on the use of .NET
web services |
| Great PB...! |
| Software needs to be updated. Starting
to show it's age. Still quirky at times. Great tool, but it
could be made better! Easy web integration. |
| i need powerbuilder in linux |
| 1.To make difference from .NET and try
not rely on .NET 2 T continue support XCOPY features for easy
deployment, 3.For database connectivities if can provide standmoudle
for XML connectivities will be useful for system development
used in internet and rich GUI features |
| have a nice future! |
| good |
| Is is easy to learn and use PowerBuilder
because the GUI & script are user friendly. |
| Microsoft .NET and Java polarized computers
applications' industry. Sybase took a long time to Web enable
PB and after that to make a .NET enabled development environment.
Well, I think Sybase has the same syndrome as Borland: to
decide toward Java or Microsoft. It stayed in the middle going
nowhere. |
| Need an improvisation towards the marketing
process for an effective market penetration. |
| I'm a big fan and a long time pb developer
(1997). Keep up the good work! Unfortunately I think we are
switching to MS .NET within the year... |
| hope power builder will lead the market
in coming future |
| We have much work to do on limited budgets. |
| Great product and keep improving |
| Being able to develop solutions for LAMP
is becoming more important. Any chance PowrBuilder could support
that platform. |
| Marketing Marketing Marketing |
| Need more integration platform for web
based applications, mainly professional level. |
| Please continue to improve PB. Easy deployment
to web will surely make PB a very verastile and indispensable
RAD tool. |
| code once, deploy to any platform |
| With so many Java projects either costing
3 times as much as 4GL development & many failed projects
NOW is the time for PB to step into the lime light again!
Marketing is key or many java projects will simply go to .NET
because PB isn't in vogue any more. |
| Sybase does not push PB hard enough and
their martketing and developer support is poor compared to
MS. |
| En Latinoamerica deberia existir una
mayor fuerza de ventas para proponer a las empresas cambiarse
a Powerbuilder. |
| I have used PowerBuilder from 1998 to
2001. PowerBuilder is a great tool for developing Client-Server
app. But it failed in the web-based development era. My suggestion
is to develop some integrated tools to develop web base application. |
| Sybase should go for proper marketing
for PB, as PB is far far better than any other MS front end
tool. |
| It's dead. |
| There needs to be web services and XML
capabilities in Desktop PowerBuilder or a Developers' version
of PowerBuilder Enterprise. I cannot afford the investment
now in Enterprise and I need to develop web services. I want
to leverage my investement in PowerBuilder. PowerBuilder needs
better marketing. It is a great product. Maybe they could
have a joint venture with the Stylist Studio product. |
| pb is very good platform |
| Good tool. Need to include a lot of controls
like activex natively. Must support Rich text printing as
normal datawindow column. |
| We can not received any suggestions about
new technoligies such as xml or web services etc., and when
we've problems about EAServer we does not received good answer
or good support from expert team in thailand. (We use PowerBuilder
V6 (Old Application)and V9, Sybase 12.5, EAServer 5.2.0) |
| Rapid Development! |
| i likk pb, but i'm worried i will be
stuck with a dead technology |
| Power Builder Resource very difficult
findout. I'm worry about the future of Power Builder. But
it never dead. Regards, john |
| for future we need to develop more applications
and web applications with great 4gl environment of powerbuilder
as it is no more less than other interested technologies like
.net etc. |
| I am working on pb for the last 2 years
and in this timeperiod i have seen that pb is a very good
rapid application development tool,basically it helps us to
develop the desktop alpplications very fastly but where it
lacks is the ablility to create n - tier applications. Because
in today's scenario its very important that you should be
able to fetch the accurate data from anywhere, anytime and
its retreival time should also be very less i.e very less
time complexity. and this is possible in web applction development
only. |
| No Comments |
| Don't die with JAVA |
| non |
| very useful improvements with pb 10.5
in visual appearance, well done! good: support other application
servers like jboss, geronimo on july 2006 very good: pocketbuilder!!!
important to improve: use rtf-report as nested report in composite
datawindows in general: be quicker in integration of new technologys,
we are always 2 - 4 later as .NET or JAVA-developers, why?!
wishes: gantt - control like varchart gantt of nettronic |
| Possible to lower the price hence attract
more people to join powerbuilder ? powerbuilder has a very
good datawindow, but most programmers use microsoft products,
not just because of the features, but also the price. |
| Marketing is TOO weak for powerbuilder!
I haven't seen any advertising, promotion, introduction, seminars,
etc. for powerbuilder this year... yes, there was one, the
email from sybase about the launch of PB 10.0, that is! no
more! Please, do more marketing on powerbuilder & improve
the image! |
| Go Ahead ... |
| We use Powerbuilder for small to medium-sized
client-server apps with any of several DBMS back-ends. I like
its scripting capacities and full set of features. I have
been able to make it do many interesting things. It can be
glitchy, however, and sometimes its behavior is different
when deployed than it is on the developer desktop, which can
be very annoying. |
| Very happy with PB and using since 1996 |
| if datawindow painter has many objects,
it does not performs as expected & gives page fault in pbudo9.dll.... |
| Give the .Net and Linux version of PB
soon. If not we have to move towards other tools and once
moved (by investing on new tools and trainings) we will not
be able to come back to PowerBuilder. Both these trends must
be addressed fast as well as advertisements in both techno
and consumer magazines (like what Microsoft does) should take
place. |
| Its very nice to work with powerbuilder.Easy
and programmer friendly software. |
| should have more presence and a will
to market against a less featureless but a powerfull marketing
similar product |
| J2EE without EA Server would be nice,
as would a no runtime" executable and some access to bitwise
operations." |
| I have been a PB developer since version
3.0a. I think this tool is fantastic. Some companies are changing
because they feel experienced IT people will not be around
to maintain. I think the learning curve is minimal, also client
server had a bad rap for being a fat client back when client
machines were not like desktops today, and with the increase
of bandwidth you do not see the refresh issues of the past.
I think security is better and developement is must faster. |
| I hope more support will get for powerbuilder
from powersoft and powerbuilder should be the best frienldy
languagae for programmer and as well as the user. |
| Actually the powerbuilder as a Client
/ Server tool is good. No tool can beat the powerbuilder.
But at the web application level, in the software many improvements
needs to be done for the current and future needs. |
| 1) It's transacT sql, not transac ! 2)
In the future answers" should have "I don't know alternatives)
" |
| I have Q: why some time the PB is Exit
by it self .for ex, if you want to save your work some go
down the PB . Pls check this error Thank U I want some website
name for help us in the PB Pls help us. |
| Improve the form gui develop,provide
more feathure in gui design. |
| I have been using PowerBuilder since
1997. I have developed applications using several other platforms
as well including VB, Java, Developers 9i, .NET (C#) but I
am still to come up against a platform, language or development
environment that provides that much control and power that
PowerBuilder does. I just hope the guys at Sybase market this
tool more efficiently so the people in the software development
business that are not using PowerBuilder could see what we
have seen. |
| Powerbuilder should improve their objects
such as in Visual Basic, customizable bevel width/height for
each control. More powertips on objects. More properties on
picture button, improvement on flat button plus other object
should be flat enabled also. Thanx |
| PB is better than the best in client/server.
It needs to catch up with others in Web development. There
is need to grow awarness within corporate world about sybase
and Powerbuilder. Advertise more! |
| Marketing of PowerBuilder is not good.
No product can survive without good marketing. Hope you will
improve the marketing, or else sell it to Microsoft who can
do good marketing |
| Great product. Totally underated. Gives
us a real advantage. |
| Please make sure that user can work only
with keyboard in PowerBuilder IDE . Actually this is very
important aspect of IDE and i think this is lacking in PowerBuilder
as we have to use mouse very frequently and sometimes its
mendatory to use mouse. please try to improve this |
| The company made a decision several years
ago to stop using PowerBuilder for new development. The question
we are facing now is how long will it be viable to maintain
our existing PB applications. |
| I would like to have the hability to
create WEB applications using power builder full features,
like command buttons, ddlb, dddw, dw, tree views, etc... Coding
this kind of objects requires a lot of work to be on WEB applications.
What the common sense about PB is in the industry is that
it will disappear. Basically driven out by cheaper products
like Microsoft's. What the management do not see is the capability
of creating applications in shorter time using Power Builder.
Also Sybase lacks of free seminars, and a better documentations
on how to build WEB applications using PowerBuilder. If at
least one person in Sybase could come and do a demostration
on what it takes to make WEB applications using Power Builder,
the future would be better... |
| I like this Client Server tool very much.
I feel and wish that it should get more market share. Sybase
should market it on more vast canvas. Microsoft continue its
market publicity at every level especially in Asia (Pakistan)
but I did not observe such marketing of Sybase. Personally
I did not know SYBASE as per Power Builder tool But i know
micorosoft as per .Net, So I feel that SYBASE should market
its product on long horizons. If everyone knows it, most of
them try to use it. |
| It is definitely the best C/S application
development tool. |
| Hope PowerBuilder to update with new
controls, presentations which will attract more people. |
| when will the next version be released? |
| We are trying to learn more about PowerBuilder. |
| Too little too late from Sybase! Moving
all new development to C# then will port legacy apps to C#. |
| Please call me @404 562 8022. |
| Everything is ok. But marketing is very
poor. product support also very poor in india. Kind improve. |
| I like powerbuilder. The IDE is buggy,
always has. I'd prefer dropping PBLs and just use the *.sr*
files; more like other main stream products. Callbacks from
DLLs would be nice. |
| Looking forward to more detailed Rich
Text capabilities in datawindow objects. Controlling the fonts
of words and columns within a computed column. Advancement
of the Format property will allow a wider use of merge documents
and html exporting in template format. Actually this was one
fo the only stops. HTML export from Sybase direct would be
nice but that's another animal altogether. |
| want to know it is better to be using
Power Builder or not? |
| Menu in powerbuilder is seems to be weak.
Inorder to achive MDI feature i have to inherit window menu
from frame menu. I feel powerbuilder just replaces menu. i
don't think it is nice idea.. Other tools(eg. .net) handles
menu in nice way |
| French |
| Dommage qu'on n'entende pas assez parler
de powerbuilder. Il serait peut être intéressant de développer
un partenariat avec de grandes SSII car en tant que développeur,
on a tendance à plus entendre parler d'offres DOTNET que de
PB. On a le sentiment que PB et ses avantages en tant que
langage de développement (je pense notamment aux PFC) n'est
pas suffisament connu des décideurs. Quel dommage! |
| powerbuilder est en regression et est
en train de mourir a petit feu... |
| En espérant que l'intégration à .NET
ne conduise pas à la fin de PowerBuilder ! |
| Avoir plus de suivi sur les furures versions |
| Le PowerBuilder reste l'outil de developpement
le plus puissant que j'ai rencontré dans mes développement.
Mais ous avons des problème de migration vers une version
supériere, si vous pouvez nous aider à imigrer vers la version
10. nous sommes sur windows serveur 2003. |
| A regret la décision a été prise par
la direction d'abandonner PB pour Java |
| Il faudrait développer plus rapidement
les aspects mobilité en tirant profit des DW qui sont vraiment
un outil très efficace. La communication autout des developpements
via PB pour des applications nomades devrait être renforcée. |
| Toujours des problèmes sur la gestion
native en source contrôle. L'aide syntaxique au développment
est toujours à améliorer, sans compter l'inexistance du refactoring. |
| PowerBuilder nous donne entièrement satisfaction
avec une productivité maximum. |
| environnement beaucoup trop buggé et
pénible à utiliser (surtout avec SourceSafe) grosses applications
trop lentes composants avec comportement non standard |
| Je n'ai pas répondu à la question 12,
car nous n'attendons rien de PB : nous utilisons la version
6.5, qui satisfait nos besoins. Des petites applis avec peu
d'utilisateurs, et qui doivent arriver rapidement sont encore
développées en PB, sinon, nous utilisons Java. |
| L'intégration avec les composants .net
est devenue stratégique pour notre entreprise. Si elle ne
s'améliore pas nous devrons changer de produit ! Ce que nous
ne souhaitons pas, car nous sommes actuellement très satisfait
de PB. |
| Nous utilisons actuellement PB8 (avec
librairie utilisateur reposant sur les PFC) pour une application
et PB10 pour une autre. Le portage de l'application PB8 vers
PB10 a posé problème lors de la compilation et il semble que
cela soit très dur de le faire (de nombreuses erreurs et warnings
surviennent). Nous espèrons avoir une solution simple à mettre
en oeuvre pour le réaliser afin de n'avoir plus qu'un environnement. |
| J'ai tout de même l'impression que Power
builder est en phase de devenir un dinosaure de l'informatique
un peu comme COBOL à son époque. |
| Nous utilisons PB avec les PFC qui offre
des composants graphiques basés" relativement interressants.
Toutefois cette panoplie d'objets devraient être développée
davantage, optimisée et pourquoi etre proposée de base dans
PB, sans forcement inclure les PFC. Souvent nous devons faire
appel à des fonctions externes, notamment l'API WIN32, pour
obtenir certaines fonctionnalités manquantes. Un point noir
important pour nous est la gestion des sources sur de gros
projets avec plusieurs développeurs, il faut etre tres vigilant!
cordialement, stéphane. " |
| La version 10 semble moins robuste que
les précédentes, nous avons beaucoup de mal à trouver un build
qui ne fasse pas régression par rapport à notre version 8.
Mais néanmoins vos équipes supprt font un excellent boulot
pour nous trouvez une solution. |
| Realease de la version 10 désastreuses |
| Le choix de powerbuilder n'a pas été
retenu pour les developpement N-Tiers. (JAVA, J2EE, JBOSS).
Nous maintenons notre parc applicatif en PB8. Et réalisons
des adaptations mineures des applications. Nous prevoyons
la migration vers PB10 et Oracle 9. |
| German |
| Powerbuilder zerstört unseren
Lebenswillen. |
| vor allem offizielle unterstützung für
WINE (Linux) wie bei den anderen (GUPTA etc..) |
| - completly instable IDE (crashes at
lightspeed) - ancient language (no interfaces, no constructors,
etc) - incomplety XP-integration - not able to build an Exe"
at first time (always has to rebuild some libraries) - no
support for refactorings like M |
| PowerBuild should become more stable,
thats the most important point for large projects |
| Es sollten durchgängig mehr Windows-Standards
benutzt werden, wie z. B. die Standard-Windows-Statusleiste,
welche mehrere Abschnitte und Icons erlaubt. |
| Die Arbeit mit grafischen DWs bedarf
unbedingt einer Verbesserung! |
| Gibt ein paar Probleme vor allem beim
Print, aber im großen und ganzen zufrieden damit. Hat leider
nicht den Stellenwert in der Welt den es haben sollte |
| LINUX!!! |
| Man sollte doch schneller neue features
bzw. bugfixes auf Markt bringen! |
| Sybase versteht absolut nichts von Marketing.
PB gibt es meiner meinung nach noch 8 Jahre. |
| In PB10 sind immer noch sehr viele Fehler
enthalten. Abstürze treten jede halbe Stunde auf. |
| Es fehlen selbst in Powerbuilder 10 windows
common controls, die in Windows Standard sind. Die COM-Integration,
d.h. der Aufruf von fremden COM-Servern ist mangelhaft. Die
Stabilität des Programms ist verbesserungswürdig |
| PowerBuilder ist ausgezeichnet, die TCPIP-Funktionalität
ist jedoch nicht professionell |
| PowerBuilder ist noch sehr gut, kann
aber mit anderen Technologien am Markt nicht mehr mithalten. |
| Für Datenbank (ClientServer optimal |
| EA-Server is too expensive, so we have
to migrate to microsoft products. Also .Net is very easy instead
of EA-Server.... Greetings from BlackForest |
| Sybase ist ein Nischenanbieter und betreibt
kein Marketing für PB. |
| Wir haben Interessenten - auch bestehende
Kunden - die unsere PowerBuilder-Applikation (DokumentenarchivierungGeschäftsprozesse)
unter Linux einsetzen möchten. Leider ist es bis jetzt nicht
möglich ohne Emulation (VMWare) eine PB-Applikation unter
Linux zum Laufen zu bringen. Eine PowerBuilder-Version für
Linux wäre sehr willkommen und würde einen riesigen Markt
öffnen. mit freundlichen Grüssen CM Informatik AG, Fredy Marugg |
| Das PB-Konzept ist gut. Die Entwicklungsumgebung
könnte mit Features aus Eclipse verbessert werden (Syntaxergänzung,
Editierfenster großklein durch Doppelklick, Code Refactoring,
..). Die Stabilität von PB 8, 9 ist schlecht. Das Programm
stürtzt mehrmals am Tag ab. |
| 1.Es wäre sinnvoll, wenn die nächste
Powerbuilder-Version weniger neue Features, dafür aber auch
weniger Bugs hätte. Das Setzen und Löschen von Breakpoints
funktioniert eher zufällig - darauf ist leider kein Verlass.
2.Was auch eim Makel ist, ist dass man Objekte, in denen ein
Fehler ist nur noch mit Edit-Source öffnen kann um den Fehler
zu bereinigen. 3.Wünschenswert wäre auch, dass man bei im
Editor geöffneten Objekten auch die Vaterklasse öffnen kann,
um in deren Funktionen etwas nachzusehen - momentan muss man
dazu immer eine zweite Powerbuilder-Instanz öffnen, das nervt
bei PowerBuilder schon immer. |
| Bevor irgendwelche Neuerungen eingebaut
werden, sollte Sybase erst dafür sorgen, daß die bestehende
Umgebung wesentlich stabiler läuft. Würde man sämtliche Abstürze
in der Entwicklungsumgebung tatsächlich dem sybase support
engineer" melden, müßte Sybase hunderte von Leuten einstellen
und ausbilden, nur um die Support-Anfragen zu beantworten." |
| - leider hat PB nach wie vor eine sehr
instabile Programmierumgebung - da die Anwendungen immer komplexer
werden, halte ich eine Weiterentwicklung des Debuggers für
sinnvoll |
| Leider habe ich nur die 6er Version und
scheue die Investition für eine aktuelle Version. Daher mache
ich die Dinge die bis 2003 in PB entwickelt wurden jetzt in
VB oderund VC. Kunden, die den Quellcode bekommen, wollen
üblicherweise auf Microsoft entwickelt haben. |
| Die Entwicklungsumgebung für PowerBuilder
ist die schlechtest, die ich kenne und ich kenne mehr als
eine Allgemein mach PB einen sehr verstaubten Eindruck (ich
habe 4 Jahre Vollzeit-PB-Erfahrung) |
| Spanish |
| Saludos, programamos poco con Power ya
que a veces no podemos trabajar con el evento que permite
capturar la tecla deseads ENTER", en la version 6 y 7 son
un desastre estamos incursionando en la version 9.0 haber
como es, pero los cambios son abismales, si publicarian algunos
ejemplos seria bueno, SALUDOS A TODOS" |
| Saludos, programamos poco con Power ya
que a veces no podemos trabajar con el evento que permite
capturar la tecla deseads ENTER", en la version 6 y 7 son
un desastre estamos incursionando en la version 9.0 haber
como es, pero los cambios son abismales, si publicarian algunos
ejemplos seria bueno, SALUDOS A TODOS" |
| es una herramienta flexible. |
| Pb para Linux ya!!! |
| definitivamente powerbuilder es una herramienta
muy completa , el gran problema de mas de un analista es que
conoce solo una parte de las opciones , deberia haber un manual
o un libro en donde explique paso a paso cada uno de las maravillosas
opciones que tiene esta potente herramienta. |
| Motivado al Decreto precidencial se obliga
a migrar a estardares abierto por ende la utilización del
Power Builder sera minima este año y en el venidero |
| Incluir opcion de Driver Nativo para
SQLSERVER(microsoft) en PB10 Y PB10.5 |
| Llevo trabajando con PB desde la version
4 y la verdad me parece una herramienta muy potente para el
desarrollo de aplicaciones. |
| Herramientas de conversion de datos desde
los DW a datos planos (txt) que contenga solo la informacion
necesario y el formarto deseado |
| PowerBuilder es una herramienta grandiosa
en lo que a manejo de datos y productividad en desarroollo,
pero, en lo que respecta a interfaz no te deja muchas alternativas. |
| COMO HERRAMIENTA STAND ALONE es muy buena,
PERO TENEMOS QUE MIGRAR A TECNOLOGIAS WEB... y powerbuilder
en este sentido no brinda muchos beneficios, lo mismo con
sistemas operativos linux. ES LO QUE ESTAMOS ESpanishERANDO...
POWERBUILDER para linux y POWERBUILDER para desarrollos web |
| Es un gran prodcuto pero aun le falta
que la parte de web gràfica (JSpanish) tenga un interface
mucho mas àgil i fàcil. Que ha sido siempre su gran punto
fuerte. Es decir hace falta un RAD" para la parte gràfica
Web." |
| Ojalá se pudiera mejorar en documentación
en línea y soporte al usuario. El éxito para nuestro trabajo
seria el que se incluya georeferenciación desde PowerBuilder
con datawindows que produzcan mapas. Necesitamos más soporte
en Power Builder como herramienta de desarrolloa para la Web,
y nos cuesta trabajo hacerlo con otras herramientas (PHP,
ASP, JAVA) |
| Existe poco documentación y manuales
en español que permitan sacarle provecho a las herramientas
web que proporciona PB. |
| Mas difusión y soporte en América Latina,
sobre todo a nivel educativo para que las universidades preparen
a los estudiantes en estas herramientas. Oracle y Microsoft
tienen mucho terreno ganado en este sentido. |
| Lamentablemente tengo aplicaciones desde
la versión 4, 6.5 y 7 y me gustaría standarizar el problema
es que no tengo una herramiente que me permita migrar de la
version 4 a las 7, si existe alguna alternativa me gustaría
saberlo. |
| Especialmente falta mejoras en la presentacion
visual. |
| Sería bueno que envíen mensualmente las
nuevas características de cada release que saca PowerBuilder
y algunos tips para el desarrollo con PowerBuilder |
| Aun presenta problemas al manejar grandes
cantidades de datos en memoria, degenerando la interfaz gráfica. |
| Dado que deseamos conocer mas las herramientas
de PB10 ó PB10.5, podrian darnos algun link donde podamos
descargar una version de prueba de estos productos? En si
PB me impacto desde que logre realizar mi primera aplicacion,
sus herramientas son muy completas, pero debe integrarse a
lo que hoy en dia esta abarcando al desarrollo, aplicacions
orientadas a la web. |
| PB es una buena herramienta, para desarrollo,
pero tenemos pocos cursos de certificación en el Marcado. |
| En líneas generales PowerBuilder es un
gran IDE (tanto el lenguaje como su entorno de desarrollo).
Nos preocupa la baja introducción de este lenguaje en la comunidad
de desarrolladores que puede hacerlo desaparecer en favor
de los 2 grandes competidores: J2EE y .NET. Hay grandes esfuerzos
por parte de los líderes (Sun y Microsoft) para fidelizar
a los desarrolladores sobre sus plataformas. Creo, en lo personal,
que Sybase debería plantear una estrategia similar para no
perder tanto capital humano y seguir proyectando a PowerBuilder
como un lenguaje de última generación y como una herramienta
RAD (Rapid Application Development). Exitos. Damián Ríos |
| que siga desarrollando y si hubieran
cursos para capacitacion a precios accesibles |
| PowerBuilder es una de las herramientas
de programación mas completas que he tenido el gusto de utilizar,
realmente es muy bueno, aunque espero que cambie mucho mas
y salga pronto una versión para Linux |
| La herramienta es muy robusta, pero nos
gustaria que tuviera opciones para poder migrar aplicaciones
a WEB mas precisas |
| felicitaciones por realizar estas encuentas
y unir a los desarrolladores de power builder |
| A PowerBuilder SOLO le falta mejorar
un poco el powerScript pero desarrollar mucho su desarollo
orientado a Web. Si pudieran desarrollar algo similar al entorno
de Visual Studio seria sensacional |
| Buenos dias, soy Ing. de sistemas y muy
autodidacta, me gustaria algunos manuales sobre las nuevas
caracteristicas de PB10 y la integracion con el framework,
q versiones soporta, etc. Muchas gracias |
| Es una excelente herramienta de desarrollo
y además me gusta porque es amigable y fácilmente diseña y
crea nuavas aplicaciones, en lo personal yo imparte clases
de PB en la Universidad Evangélica desde hace 4 ciclos y me
encanta este programa. |
| Herramienta Interesante, pero que muchos
personas que toman decisiones no lo ven asi (ya que para ellos
todo es JAVA). Seria bueno que se brinden licencias para pruebas
y estudios y asi poder desarrollar pilotos y vender facilidad
y capacidad de la herramienta. |
| ME AGRADA PERO SE DEBE IMPLEMENTAR EL
SOPORTE PARA LINUX, PARA UN FUTURO PROXIMO |
| Seguir expandiendo la difusion (Manuales,
Foros, etc) de esta herramienta en español. |
| Powerbuilder me ha demostrado (en los
7 años que llevo programando en el mismo) ser una de las mejores
alternativas para el desarrollo de aplicaciones cliente-servidor
con acceso a bases de datos relacionales. Sin embargo, aún
es muy flojo en cuanto a desarrollo Web, su integración con
Java y .NET no me redunda en ningún beneficio, puesto que
también desarrollo en esas herramientas, y para colmo de males
su posibilidad de correr exclusivamente en un servidor como
el EAServer lo hace muy poco atractivo para Web Development.
Otra cosa preocupante a mi parecer es que el Powerbuilder
10 (que es la herramienta que adquirí recientemente) es muy
inestable, no ha mejorado los objetos que ya tienen problemas
en anteriores versiones (ejemplo el objeto menu), aplicaciones
funcionando en versión 9 han sido migradas al 10 y los resultados
fueron un poco menos que catastróficos, por lo que ahora seguimos
desarrollando en el 9. No hay ninguna mejora interesante,
dos nuevos controles (esperaba más), pocas mejoras al powerscript,
la introducción de soporte unicode fué fatal (lectura y escritura
de archivos tiene problemas). En fin; podría seguir largamente. |
| Realmente Power Builder me parece una
excelente herramienta, no pienso cambiarla por otra, si me
gustaría tener mas información o manuales acerca de como hacer
proyectos web con PowerBuilder. |
| Para nuestro caso, PB se está orientando
mucho a .NET y la tecnología a la que nuestra empresa se proyecta
es J2EE. |
| Muy tarde fue el intento de power para
el desarrollo WEB |
| Me gustaría saber mas acerca de powerbuilder
con aplicaciones intranet e internet...Y que el costo de las
herramientas para desarrollar en internet sean menos costosas
para poder adquirirlos. |
| Faltan foros o documentacion en español
de ejemplos o para consultas |
| es optimo para aplicaciones medianas. |
| Power builder es un excelente lenguaje
de programación, pero me gustaria tener mas información de
las nuevas herramientas para poder tener la forma de graficar
en forma dinamica con un poco mas de herramientas para poder
ofrecer un poco mas de calidad en estas a los usuarios finales.. |
| Hace falta la posibilidad de desarrollar
aplicaciones WEB que funcionen en entornos Libre (Apache,
etc.) |
| los problemas que he encontrado al utilizar
dll hechos en c# algunos no se dejan incorporar a powerbuilder
por el manejo de punteron que se hace en c# |
| No existen muchos libros de PowerBuilder
actualmente en el mercado, sería conveniente generar más literatura
al respecto. |
| 1) Me gustaría saber si estas encuestas
están siendo reportadas a Sybase y cual es su opinion al respecto,
es decir, cuales son sus planes a futuro sobre PB. 2) Deberían
separar PB del desarrollo Web y hacer una nueva herramienta
(PowerWeb?) Así el equipo de desarrollo de PB no se distraería
y podría mejorar el GUI que tanto falta le hace; hay muchas
mejoras que se pueden hacer. Yo tengo una lista de mejoras
para PowerBuilder que con gusto se las hago llegar si es su
deseo. 3) Están cayendo en el síndrome de la versión 10 en
la que el producto se vuelve tan complejo que se hace inestable.
Tengan cuidado. 4) PowerBuilder es como el Latín; todo mundo
sabe que existió pero nadie, en la práctia, lo usa actualmente.
En las encuestas cuando preguntan qué herramientas se están
utilizando no se menciona PowerBuilder. Cuando voy con un
cliente y le digo utilizo PowerBuilder me mira con recelo
y se cuestiona si será conveniente desarrollar su aplicacion
en una herramienta que pocos programadores saben usar. En
resumen Sybase necesita promover más PowerBuilder. Les hago
una pregunta muy sencilla, si Sybase quisiera vender la división
de PowerBuilder, ¿habría alguien que se lo compraría? 5) Porque
no cambian su numeración y sacan PowerBuilder 2006? Por lo
menos aprendan algo de mercadotecnia de Microsoft. 6) Esta
encuesta no está bien diseñada. Por ejemplo, no utilizo PocketBuilder
para desarrollar aplicaciones móviles porque simple y sencillamente
no desarrollo aplicaciones móviles, y no porque utilice otra
herramienta que no sea PocketBuilder. |
| In each new versionpatch allways IDE
is very inestable. |
| Mejorar la exportación a documentos como
Excel, es decir que lod DW se puedan migrar a excel tal y
como estan diseñados o como se muestran en ejecución |
| PB. Es uno de los mejores lenguajes de
programación que he utilizado. Espero siga mejorando. |
| Es un exclenete producto lo que le falta
es mayor compatibilidad con las nuevas tecnologias |
| debería sustentarse bajo algun standar
para la integración con diferentes tecnologías. |
| Una herramienta muy practica a la hora
de desarrollar aplicaciones. Ademas, provee maneras eficientes
en lo relacionado con los reportes |
| Seria bueno tener mas apoyo o soporte
en Latino America ojala en colombia |
| Me gusta el entorno y considero que mejora
con cada versión. |
| Es una herramienta muy completas, aunque
hay algunos problemas que tuve al momento de diseñar reportes
para formatos preimpresos, utilizando diferentes impresoras.Las
posiciones de cuadre del papel de una a otra no funciona,
deberia respetarse, es decir en una funciona bien y en otra
no. |
| Es una potente herramienta de desarrollo
para aplicaciones empresariales, sin embargo, nesecita tener
mas flexibilidad para trabajar con controles y componentes
no propios de PowerBuilder. |
| esta evaluacion es basada en la version
PB 6.5. Seguramente las modificaciones sugeridas lo tiene
versiones superiores. |
| Creo que se necesita mas acoplamiento
con bd Libre llamece Mysql, Postgres etc. al igual que con
Entorno Linux sin utilizar emuladores. seria excelente |
| Es muy buen producto y bastante sencillo
de desarrollar , yo opino que es tan o mas bueno que los productos
de Microsoft |
| EXCELENTE HERRAMIENTA ME GUSTARIA QUE
EL DESARROLLO QUE UNA HAGA FUNCIONE DIRECTAMENTE EN WEB COMO
.NET |
| QUE NO SE REQUIERA UN GRAN HARDWARE PARA
PODER CORRER SUS APLICACIONES EN NUEVAS VERSIONES. POR EJM:
PARA PODER MIGRAR A VERSIONES TALES COMO LA 10 DEL POWER BUILDER
NECESITO UNA PC MINIMO CON XP. CORRIGANME SI ESTOY EQUIVOCADO,YA
Q' MIGRAR SE HACE MUY PESADO APARTE DE INVERTIR EN EL SOFTWARE
HAY QUE INVERTIR EN LA COMPRA DE NUEVAS PC'S. |
| Seria bueno que existiera una pagina
para dudas mas amigable que las existentes para compartir
experiencias y problemas del aplicativo........ |
| Mas información de sus productos y comparación
con otros similares. Mucha gracias. |
| Como desarrollador encuentro que Power
Builder Independiente de la versión es una excelente herramienta
de programación, en cuanto a mejoras creo que ya han avanzado
enormemente en lo que es entorno web, pocket, lo que espero
a futuro es ya generar aplicaciones web para ampliar el area
de trabajo. |
| Lamentablemente aqui en Ecuador la difusión
de Power Builder y todo el potencial que tiene a sido muy
malo, motivo por el cual casi nadie se atreve a invertir en
desarrollo con Power Builder, en lo personal se que es una
de las mejores herramientas con las que he podido trabajar,
me gustaría pedir que haya centros de capacitación certificados
o avalados por Sybase, donde nos ayuden a los programadores
a entender los últimos avanses de power builder, ejemplo yo
me quede estancado en la versión 8, de lo que he podido leer
en los foros han salido muchas mejoras, pero las cuales por
desconocimiento no se las a podido aprovechar, teniendo que
migrar las aplicaciones a lenguajes como PHP donde se encuentra
documentación completa y fácil de entender |
| Power builder es una herramienta excelente,
que se ve opacada por la falta de recursos asignados a su
desarrollo y publicidad. J. |
| PowerBuilder es una herramienta superior
a Visual Basic .Net teniendo en cuenta que el desarrollo es
mucho mas rapido. Se debe impulsar de manera gratuita o por
convenio con las univerisades y promover las alizanzas con
los centros de capacitacion. Requieren un mercadeo mas agresivo
del producto |
| En realidad PB es excelente , trabajo
ya 9 años y no he tenido mayores inconvenientes . Tengo 4
Sistemas desarrollados, para empresas comerciales, aduanas,
seguros y brokers |
| Sería interesante que se pudiesen exportar
las DataWindows tal y como se muestran en pantalla ( con subtotales,
campos calculados etc.. ) a Excel. |
| Soy una persona con 35 años en el medio
de desarrollo de aplicaciones, hoy oriento mis aplicaciones
a Internet. Usé PowerBuilder antes de que iniciaran con la
programación orientada objetos y después use las dos primeras
versiones de poo, desafortunadamente me retiré de la empresa
donde se desarrollaba con PB y no he vuelto a tener contacto
con esta herramienta. Me gustaría reiniciar mis actividades
en PB pero la paquetería y la capacitación salen de mis posibilidades
financieras, así que si tuvieran ustedes alguna facilidad
al respecto me gustaría conocerla. Gracias y saludos. Arturo
Romo. |
| Creo que es hora de retomar el marketing,
para conocer que aspectos nuevos y mejoras tienen en productos
PowerBuilder y Sybase. |
| Si bien el leguaje es poderoso para desarrollo
transaccional, seria bueno que implementen mas sobre controlar
el hardware directamente y mas aun que sea multiplataforma
en el caso de linux, por qeu estamso cambiando algunos servidores
a este sistema operativo, por lo demas es bueno el producto |
| En lo personal me molesta el hecho que
tengo que utilizar hasta 3 lenguajes de programacion para
la creacion de soluciones web, creo que Power Builder es un
producto muy bueno en el desarrollo de aplicaciones cliente
servidor y se que tambien tiene integracion para aplicaciones
WEB, sin embargo la documentacion existente es muy confusa
o bien no he encontrado una buena fuente. Para ser un producto
de paga creo que el mantenimiento de la documentacion y la
divulgacion de la misma no es muy buena, es por eso que lo
califico con un 7, como lenguaje me parece excelente, como
IDE le doy un 9, me parece sencilla y facil de usar, algo
que talvez no sea el unico que lo diga es la ayuda es excelente,
talvez piensen que me contradigo con mi comentario acerca
de la documentacion, aclaro un archivo de ayuda no es lo mismo
que una documentacion en forma que indique las bases con las
que hace ciertas cosas un producto. |
| Aún se comporta inestable. |
| Es malo que estemos pensando cambiar
de lenguaje solo porque no podemos subir con PWB a internet
sin comprar el EAServer. En los proyectos chicos que manejamos,
es impensable trasladar ese costo a nuestros clientes. Es
el motivo por el cual todavia estamos con la version 6.5 |
| agregar frameworks gratuitos para todas
las especialidades. |
| Power builder es una excelente herramienta
sin embargo creo que le falta un detalle q lo haria super
poderoso y es que faltan objetos para crear grficos y su utilizacion
en mapas por ejemplo; asi mismo falta mejorar el acbado de
los graficos de barras, lineas, etc |
| es muy bueno |
| me hacen falta controles de tipo: Drill
Down, Arbol de Graficos, donde los puedo conseguir |
| Los felicito la encuenta, |
| PowerBuilder es una excelente herramienta
pero está perdiendo mercado por descuido en el marketing...
Piensa Sybase mantener a PB en el mercado? o lo va a dejar
de lado? al parecer es la segunda opción... |
| excelente producto, me gustaría contar
con algún demo de las nuevas versiones. |
| Las nuevas versiones de Powerbuilder
no estan orientadas hacia aplicativos transaccionales. |
| Una buena Herramienta |
| Estamos muy contentos con PB, pero es
muy pobre su funcionalidad para Internet. Tambien es muy dificil
encontrar bibliografia y gente capacitada. Nos parece que
el marketing de Sybase esta funcionando MUY mal. |
| Faltan objetos para manipular puertos,
documentos , videos etc. |
| Es indispensable mantener los drivers
nativos en las nuevas versiones. La interfase ADO es muy restringida. |
| PowerBuilder es uha herramienta de desarrollo
muy amigable, sin embargo, a la hora de buscar información
sobre nuevas versiones, me encuentro casi siempre con muchas
restricciones, realmente mi deseo es migrar este año a una
versión de powerbuilder con sybase(sqlanywhere) |
| Cuando se utilizan valores numericos
y se efectuan pruebas a modo nativo no se distinguen problemas,
pero cuando se genera el código de máquina y se ejecuta con
este inconveniente el programa se cancela. Debería efectuarse
una observacion cuando se están generando el código de máquina.
Nosotros estamos utilizando la version 8.0.3 |
| eXCELENTE HERRAMIENTA, ALGUNAS COSAS
PUEDEN MEJORARSE SOBRE TODO QUE SEA AUN MAS AMIGABLE PARA
ACELERAR EL DESARROLLO. |
| Que bien saber que powerbuilder sigue
integrando nuevas caracteristicas como la integracion con
.net |
| PB es una excelente herramienta de desarrollo,
pero pienso qie está perdiendo terreno en el mercado, ahora
hay menos desarrollos en PB y mas en .NET o Java. |
| El año pasado fue mi primera experiencia
con PowerBuider, me parece una herramienta potente pero creo
que le falta para llegar a ser a lo que yo estaba acostumbrado(Delphi),
me gustaria que PowerBuilder llegara a tener mas componentes
nativos faciles de utilizar y con el minimo de código posible. |
| otras mejoras que muchos esperamos: 1.
Las ventanas MDI deben permitir imagenes. 2. Poder crear los
color Backgrounds con degradación. 3. Poder asignar protección
con password a los PSreports 4. Incorporar muchas funciones
de red (Captura de IP, Estado de conexiones, etc... y que
hoy dia solo son posibles con las api functions). 6. Mejorar
la estabilidad del producto, ya que es muy fragil en tiempo
de desarrollo y se aborta con mucha facilidad. |
| Sería de mucha ayuda pongan en la internet
manuales de Power Builder para desarrollo de sitios Web |
| VERSION NUEVA GRACIAS |
| Power Builder es una herramienta sensacional,
la mayor limitación que he encontrado es cuando hago reportes
graficos, solo se puede hacer un orden alfabetico, y no se
puede jugar mucho con los colores. |
| Hagamao que el Power Builder sea una
herramienta de desarrollo en plataforma Internet, en forma
amigable como lo hace en CS |
| La verdad q me encantaria ver como power
builder se pueda adecuar a las plataformas libres para ver
una mejor operancia del desarrollo |
| Desde que inicie mis labores con esta
herramiente, he tenido una expectativa muy alta, tanto por
sus bondades, medios y técnicas implementadas. Un punto muy
alto es la facilidad y agilidad para desarrollar. Aunque el
punto más bajo para mi es Linux, que aun no veo que la versión
permite desarrollar aplicaciones que corran en dicha plataforma. |
| EXCELENTE LA ENCUENTA, MI SUGERENCIA
PARTICULAR ES IMPULSAR POWERBUILDER PARA GENERAR APLICACION
LINUX... |
| Espero ke mejoren la interfaz IDE, cada
vez la hacen mas complicada. tanta ventanita hace muy pesado
el trabajo, debe de mantenerse esa para los usuarios ke se
han acostumbrado y poderse configurar como era la PB 6, ke
es más ligera para trabajar |
| CREO QUE ES UNA HERRAMIENTA MUY PODEROSA,
PERO ES MUY DIFICIL DE APRENDER YO EXPLICAR A ALGUIEN NUEVA.
DEBERIAN DE SACAR LIBROS DE APRENDIZAJE RAPIDO Y CON LAS COSAS
MAS ESENCIALES. PIENSO QUE DEBERIA HABER YA UNA HERRAMIENTA
INTEGRADA PARA LA EXPLOTACION DE LA BASE DE DATOS (REPORTES
ESpanishECIFICAMENTE). SI LA HAY HABER SI ME PUEDEN ENVIAR
INFORMACION. |
| desaria k se pudiese migrar de la version
6,7 al power builder 10 |
| PB deberia integrarse con UML o Java |
| trabajoa a gusto con esta herramienta
de Power Builder ya que es muy amigable. |
| Excelente herramienta, pero falta tutorial
con ejemplos más prácticos para utilizar otras herramientas
que se integran con powerbuilder, sobre todo las herramientas
web. O donde puedo obtener esa información |
| Mejor integración con opciones visuales
y gráficas |
| La Compliacion en .Net |
| Es excelente deben de darle mayor auge
y mas mercadeo. |
| La herramienta muy buena, pero para quienes
trabajamos con ella, es necesario que exista una capacitación
a nuestro alcance, yo vivo en Ambato - Ecuador y en nuestra
ciudad la capacitacion es nula, pues los responsables Uniplex
que esta en Quito, con pesimos para como soporte ademas de
excesivamente costosos. Es necesario de suma urgencia que
exista otro soporte en el Ecuador solo asi PowerBuilder y
los que trabajamos con el, vamos a desarrollarnos. |
| Mejoras del diseño grafico. |
| Son muy pocas las personas que utilizamos
power builder, puesto de que se desconoce su potencialidad,
ahora aqui en huancayo peru, mucho mas, el programa PB, para
mi, es un mounstruo, es lo maximo, fijence que no necesita
mucho codigo, es mas click, poco codigo, y realmente soluciona
infinidad de problemas, estoy probando Skins, Agentes, sinceramente
es lo maximo, ahora en cuanto a Web, necesito mas presentacion,
mas utilidad o derrepente me falta explorar, agradecere se
me informe sobre este capitulo, las integraciones con flash,
etc. y si no fuera mucha molestia alguanas aplicaciones sencillas
para incrementar mis conocimientos. atentamente sergio j.
de la cruz zuñiga programador Av. leoncio prado 1880-chilca
huancayo, telefono 064202652-0649600907. sheckodel@hotmail.com
sheckodel@yahoo.es |
| Creo que debería compartirse código y
componentes nuevos como ocurre con Java para fomentar el uso
de PowerBuilder y asegurar su futuro en mayor medida. |
| Excelente herramienta para aplicaciones
clienteservidor, en contraste con el desarrollo de aplicaciones
web. |
| La versión 9 de PB, creo que es una muy
buena versión, pero no puedo decir los mismo de la 10, lo
cual me preocupa enormmente pensando en el futuro. |
| Tener enlaces con paginas web, para ser
visualizas los reportes de los proyectos |
| Deberia haber mas bibliografia disponible
y en interntet cursos que traten temas profundos y tecnicas
de programacion en varias de las versiones de powerbuilder |
| Sybase deberia tomar iniciatica en incorporarse
al area de software libre, ideal si powerbuilder fuese llevado
a ese ambiente o que iniciaran un nuevo pryecto de un nuevo
RAD enfocado hacia esa area. |
| Trabajo con powerBuilder desde la version
4 hace 8 años |
| deseo manuales para desarrollar poyectos
en pb 9.0 gracias |
| En la pregunta 4, tambien utilizamos
el PB8 y el PB9, pero nuestros clientes más antiguos tienen
aplicaciones en PB6, por eso no es tán fácil migrar de una
aplicación a otra. Ya que en la versión 10.5 se podrá Datawindows
Tree view, capacidad de autozise e integracion con .net procuraremos
trabajar nuevos proyectos en sus ultimas versiones del programa.
La herramienta del Visual Expert 5.6 y Visual Guard son muy
buenos para gestionar los proyectos, gracias a la exposición
que se dió aquí en Perú. Por favor, me gustaría que me dieran
una ayuda sobre la forma de poder enviar y recibir correo
desde el PB8, es importante para un proyecto. Gracias. |
| Seria bueno que enfocarán más los desarrollos
de nuevas versiones hacia integración con el Framework de
.NET. |
| No he podido hacer que los procedimientos
con parametros que tengo en sql me funcionen desde una aplicación
PowerBuilder. En Bogota - Colombia se ofrezcan mas cursos
de PowerBuilder por empresas de capacitacón reconocidas. |
| Hace Falta mayor informacion en español
de las actualizaciones |
| Estoy interesado en Aplicaciones Web
con Power Builder. Sin estar utilizando las famosas como java,
javascript, xsl, php, asp ,, etc |
| Estaria muy bien mejorar la exportacion
de los datos apartir de los DW's especificamente de los dw'S
COMPOSITE. Mejorar el Manejo de las Funciones de Fecha y Hora
en el PB. Ampliar la capacidad de SubQuerys permitidos en
la DW's. |
| Bueno, felicitarlos ,ya que sin ustedes
nosotros no podriamos estar bien informardos y decirles que
toda ayuda es bienvenida si se trata actualizarnos en este
mundo global de antemano muchas gracias por todo. |
| Desarrollador y admirador de PowerBuilder
desde hace 10 años, por toda su potencia, estabilidad y versatilidad.
Solicito por favor... Desarrollar mejores campañas de publicidad
y dar mayor apertura y mayor difusion a las capacidades de
PowerBuilder para desarrollo de aplicaciones Web. La gran
mayoría de desarrolladores PB que conozco, por mucha experiencia
que se tenga, no logra ser suficiente para explotar la herramienta
con la tecnología Web. Gracias! |
| Acceso a más ejemplos de programas y
códigos. |
| es perfecto lo que ofrece esta herramienta
, ya que es un avance en aplicacion . nos sentimo honrados
al saber que exite tal herramienta y esperemos que sigan saliendo
mas novedades |
| Apertura de drivers para MSSQL Server
Express Edition 2005 y apertura de drivers para PocketBuilder
a otros manejadores, no limitarlo unicamente a SQL Anywhere.
Gracias! |
| Es indisensable el intercambio de informacion
con otras instituciones por medio de la WEB, por tal motivo
se hace indispensable mejoras en XML. Saludos. |
| Que desarrollen productos en español
y que se difundan manuales en linea en español. |
| Deseamos que la empresa desarrollo un
power builder pero que sea en español para todos los paises
latinos de habla hispana. |
| Es un lenguaje que permite el desarrollo
de aplicaciones rapidamente y con una flexibilidad y escalabilidad
tremenda. |
| Que vengan modelos de programación para
una guía mas rápida en el proceso de aprendizaje. |
| En argentina no obtuve respuesta de la
gente de sybase. de ningun tipo, escribi email a marketing
al administrador y nunca me respondieron. seria bueno que
nos den un poco mas de importancia. |
| la unica problematica que veo con Sybase
es que no se puede encontrar mucha informacion de powerbuilder
en español, es decir, manuales o libros de Powerbuilder en
español de la versiones o versiones mas recientes que van
saliendo para asi poder estar a la vanguardia de los cambios
y mejoras de dicha herramienta de desarrollo, otra cosa que
veo es que en mi pais El Salvador Powerbuilder esta perdiendo
mercado frente a Java y a .NET ya que las licencias de powerbuilder
son mucho mas caras que las anteriores. |
| Deseo que Power Builder Sea mejor que
.Net |
| PowerBuilder es la mejor herramienta
y espero mucha mas de lo que ya PowerBuilder tiene y espero
tambien ojala una version en español de PowerBuilder |
| Necesito que herramientas existen para
migrar las aplicacines pb a web |
| mejorar la interface de desarrollo |
| espero que salgan mas opciones de conexiones
a las bases de datos, cliente servidor, scrips |
| como el pibe todo bien |
| PowerBuilder 9.0 es una buena herramienta
para desarrollar interfaces para usuarios. |
| Power builder es el Lenguaje de programacion
que me ha ayudado a realizar mis aplicaciones mas rapido que
cualquier otro. Aparte que es seguro potente y versatil. He
ahorrado tiempo de diseño, lineas de codigo y tiempo. El datawindow.
net me cayo como del cielo. Yo estaba de pena cuando salio
el VS.net, pero con el datawindow.net mis deños son mas bonitos
y contruyo mis interfaces rapidamente. ademas que la programacion
son pocas lineas de codigo. |
| Power builder me parece una poderosa
herramienta, sus debilidades son aun la integracion con la
web. |
| Me parece una de las mejores herramientas
de desarrollo, mis expectativas son una integración con .Net
y el manejo de Punteros de Memoria |
| Tiene mucha potencia en el manejo de
sus datawindow, pero le falta actualizar la potnecia de porder
personalizar sus controles, funciones y demas |
| PowerBuilder se quedo en el tiempo. Necesitamos
un camino facil para hacer aplicaciones WEB. No puedo migrar
a la 10 porque no tiene compatibilidad con versiones viejas
de windows (w98). Cada vez corre sobre menos sistemas operativos
y menos versiones de windows. La promocion de Sybase deja
mucho que desear. Sybase Argentina es una verguenza |
| deseo profundizar en el conocimiento
de powerbuilder, jaguar, ec pero no encuentro info en castellano. |
| Necesitamos saber o conocer si power
builder es soportado por linux o cual es su homologo |
| MUY BIEN LA ENCUESTA , LARGA VIDA AL
POWERBUILDER |
| Power Builder lo he utilizado por varios
años y me gustaria saber si en Costa Rica ha representación,
y ver si tienen ultimas actualizaciones, esta encuesta le
ayuda a programador a obtener buenos beneficios y tener una
excelente herramienta. |
| Solo me resta decir que espero pronto
tengan alguna version en español. |
| me parece una herramienta excelente sobre
tod con el eas, y todo lo que tiene que ver con bd web, lastima
que no hay documentacion como libros en español de la version
10 ni de EAS. gracias |
| Pues he trabajado en Power Builder y
me parese excelente espero tener mas noticias de este Programa
ps me es genial todas sus aplicaciones son exactas, y desde
el dia que empese a utilizarlo que fue la versión 5.0 no he
dejado de ulilizarla. Agradecere mas información del este
programa en incluso si van agregar PowerBuilder.NET. Que bueno
ya hacia falta un programa en linea para los programadores.
Saludos .... |
| Cuando Sysbase ayudara con su site en
español ? Seria interesante encontrar un chat en linea para
intercambiar preguntas y respuesta con diferentes usuarios
de la herramienta de desarrollo y base de datos. |
| deseo saber si pueden ayudar com ejemplo
s de tallados para poder saber mas de power builder |
| seria agradable encontrar más documentación
en español de la version 7 en adelante, son un gran aporte
los ejemplos y ayudas que se encuentran en internet, pero
creo que se necesita más aun. |
| Facilitar la migración a WEB |
| HAY MEJORES ALTERNATIVAS EN EL MERCADO
QUE POWER BUILDER. |
| Se puede construir aplicaciones web en
Power Builder para que se ejecuten sobre el IIS. Personalmente
he trabajado con power builder por 10 años y me parece una
excelente herramienta para el desarrollo rápido, pero lo que
se requiere actualmente es trabajar en aplicaciones web y
que el desarrollo también sea rápido. |
| Estoy empezando... me parece super las
herramientas q dispones en PW |
| falta de cursos de capacitacion auspiciado
por sybase para el publico en general |
| HOLA DESE PROGRAMARA |
| bueno creo q es una herramienta fuerte
y mas manejable comparando con visual en tosas su versiones
y espero q lo net supere al .net sigan adelante |
| se necesita que el producto tenga un
precio menor para desarrolladores junior ... y una cantidad
considerable de funciones para web incorporadas .. asi como
la posibilidad de uso mas extendendido de .net con ASP PHP
como si fuesen objetos de powerbuilder |
| se necesita que el producto tenga un
precio menor para desarrolladores junior ... y una cantidad
considerable de funciones para web incorporadas .. asi como
la posibilidad de uso mas extendendido de .net con ASP PHP
como si fuesen objetos de powerbuilder |
| Seria bueno que lanzaran una version
en Español... |
| Seria conveniente contar con DropDownListBox
que permitan proporcionar de manera opcional un DataWindow
como fuente del listado y por que no, tambien algun otro control
que pudiera tomar como fuente un Datawindow, tal y como se
hace dentro del mismo Datawindow en el Tab de Edit en el estilo
tipo DropDownDW. |
| TENGO 1 MES DE CONOCER EL POWER BUILDER
7 |
| Seria bueno hacer un portal, como microsoft
lo esta haciendo con visual studio 2005 y dar una certificacion
y capacitar gratuitamente en PB 10.00, .NET y 11.00 en un
futuro cercano |
| Me gustaria conocer la forma de conectividad
con SQL Server 2005 |
