| PB is still faster to develop data-driven applications,
we use PFC pretty heavily. We'd like to leverage our knowledge
of PB in our exploration of .NET |
| great tool! but marketing missteps & the PB7
debacle have killed 'mind share'. it's hrd to get people excited
about PB any more. My company will be migrating off PB completely
over the next 2-3 years. |
| Still love PB for what it does, but the tool
is not supported well and PB developers are losing ground especially
in the third-party tools market. Where the datawindow once reigned,
open source and commerical products are catching up for developers
in the .Net and Java space. Soon, if not already, the datawindow
will provide little competitive edge. |
| Powerbuilder nous donne satisfaction depuis
longtemps. En 2007 nous avons échoué à créer une application
Webform .net en beta pb11. Nous reprendrons ce projet en 2009. |
| We are not a Microsoft shop and wish to have
more support for Java and XML |
| PowerBuilder is powerful client server development
tool and it seems it is making very good progress towards web
development. I have strong confident in this tool and I would
like to stick with this forever. |
| PowerBuilder was the best Client/server toolset
in the mid 90s when we selected it. It continues to be one of
the most powerful software development toolsets available. I
wish Sybase marketed it more/better. My agency has a huge investment
in complex business and environmental rules implemented through
PB code; it would be nearly impossible to replace that investment
in another platform. I'm not really sure if we'll attempt to
migrate to PB 11.x this year or not, we have many projects underway. |
| Still think PB is one of the greatest development
tools. Keep it going. |
| Change of Rich Edit control from PB to third
party was a disaster. Stuff like that is inexcusible to be doing
in such a mature product. |
| In the past Powerbuilder was an excellent and
reliable product. However, the recent releases have tried to
turn it into a end all / be all product and it is managing to
fail. Sybase should have created a different product to implement
its web functionality rather than taking a good fat client tool
and making is suitable for neither fat client development or
web development. |
| While I'm still going back and forth between
PB 10 & 11, I don't like the UI changes made in 11. Maybe when
I start to use 11 on a regular basis I'll feel differently,
however I don't think that will be the case. The new icons are
not good. Half the time I can't tell if they are enabled or
not. |
| PowerBuilder has served us very well over the
years. Even though I indicated that we maintain apps rather
than build new ones, it is mentioning that we add a tremendous
amount of NEW functionality to this application every year.
My requests of you are as follows: 1. Please keep developing
new functionality. 2. Return PB to the forefront of technology
solutions in the eyes of the development community by handling
my request #1 as well as expand/improve your marketing efforts. |
| General impression is C#/.NET is the wave of
the future, and PB is just for maintaining and developing existing
apps. No new apps will be built in Powerbuilder unless there's
a substantiated change of mind. |
| Our customers want browser based applications.
We need Powerbuilder to continue being a cutting-edge data manipulation
engine development tool--and also become a cutting-edge browser-based
gui development tool. Powerbuilder apps need an easy from-the-web
update capability. |
| Powerbuilder is a wonderful client/server development
tool! |
| Would like a stable development environment. |
| We are towards the end of migrating to VB .Net
and only have a few applications remaining in PB. |
| Sybase needs to push the marketing of APPEON.
A great tool that no one knows about . . . |
| I'd like to see more bug fixes in new version
of PowerBuilder rather than new features that I'm not likely
to use. There were bugs introduced several years ago that still
remain. |
| If Sybase was to get their product in the colleges
and training centers as MS did with visual basic, access, etc.
there would be more people with PowerBuilder knowledge. We would
be able to hire developers with some training. As it is we can
not hire trained personnel. Therefore we have to shift our development
environment to where we can hire trained or at least slightly
knowledgable personnel. |
| I really love PowerBuilder. Unfortunately you
are doing a horrible job marketing the new versions and of course
you were late to the dance so to speak. So I find myself now
having to build a foundation class for .net to try to get to
the same level of speed in building applications. That being
said once I make the move, I doubt I will ever see PowerBuilder
again. A real shame as I can literally do anything with PowerBuilder,
and quickly. If I knew of an employer that was sticking with
PowerBuilder I would go to work for them in a heart beat. Of
course that is the problem... finding a company that is going
to stick with PowerBuilder, another case of a company sitting
on its base while Microsoft chipped it away. |
| Powerbuilder has always been a great tool. It's
just to bad that management does not see it that way. |
| Do something so that PB gets importance as VB....MORE
MARKETING... |
| I love using datawindows. It makes development
so much faster. I'm looking forward to my next project in PB
11 so I can do web development in my app. The one thing that
I would really like to see improved is being able to save datawindows
as PDF documents (maybe it has improved in PB 11). Currently,
it is very difficult to integrate into an application using
PB 10 that I finally gave up on it but it would be so beneficial
to some of my users to be able to use it. |
| I have been developing PowerBuilder since Dec.
1998. Keep making the improvements not only with respect to
.NET but also with the Open Source / Java World. |
| Fell very good |
| while Powerbuilder is great, it is not marketable
skill. |
| I think the PowerBuilder developers are doing
great work moving the product forward. I hope they will continue
their work and gain more adopters of the technology. I have
been using it since 1993! |
| Highly productive tools like PowerBuilder are
a must for or organization. |
| I've used Powerbuilder since 1996 version 4.
The datawindows are second to none. We are a Software Development
company that has about 7 PB apps. One new development in the
last 2 years, mostly support of the current apps. For new development
we use JAVA. The only problem I have is there doesn't seem to
be a lot of companys that use PowerBuilder, at least not in
the Syracuse, New York area. I wish there were more options
since we are a very small company that relies heavily on government
contracts |
| I would like to see improvements to the debugging
capabilities within PowerBuilder. A unified IDE might be nice
(Pocket Powerbuilder, datawindow .NET, Powerbuilder). |
| Power Builder is a great tool to develop tradional
Windows Based applications but it needs to provide better support
for developing Web Based applications. Power Builder needs to
keep up with the technology, they are always playing catch-up
to Microsoft technologies, by the time they start supporting
a technology Microsoft is already two technologies ahead |
| i have stumbled across some very annoying bugs
in the IDE. One that is particularly bothersome, has to do with
changing parameters in functions/procedures. Most generally
, when I alter an existing function's parameters ( i.e. changing
the parameter name, data type , reference/value type ) the IDE
will crash, and must be restarted. Another issue i have is with
the compiler. I have seen instance where a variable declaration
and initialization behave strange. For Example: do while (some
condition true) //want to set some locally declared var to true
each iteration boolean b = true loop I have seen bugs develop
because of this single line declaration/initialization problem.
It's like the variable is never assigned a value at all. But
if I had coded instead: boolean b b = true there is no problem. |
| Needs MS OLAP OLE Db support. As well as MDX.
Data Window should have support for Multi dimensional data sources
(OLAP) and MDX. |
| I am completing this survey for nostalgia purposes
only. I enjoyed using PowerBuilder for ten years, but with the
Sybase acquisition it completely lost focus (and brainshare).
The datawindow is still awesome, but it has been neglected in
favor of attempting to do things PB just doesn't do well: web
apps, integration with application servers etc. |
| The Datawindow is still the best data access
tool around. |
| I am upgrading from PB 8 to PB 11. The IDE is
a little outdated when compare to Visual studio 2008. I wish
I had the intellisense feature in PB 11, that will same me a
lot of typing. |
| Loved PB for years.. hard to find PB developers
tho .. That is the reason we will most likely be phasing out
and into .net |
| For the most part I really like PowerBuilder.
One of the items I would like to see added is arguments to a
drop-down datawindow that can be applied in the datawindow,
like you would with a nested datawindow. Most of my drop downs
are based on the data in the selected row and therefore I have
to re-retreieve the data on rowfocuschanged event making it
awkward at best. |
| I have been using PowerBuilder for client/server
development since v4. I am currenlty upgrading 8 applications
to pb11 and looking at developing a new application using pb11
web capabilities. Powerbuilder is a GOOD tool. |
| Would like to see Powerbuilder Web applications
run on Firefox browsers and be hosted on Unix Machines at some
point in the near future. |
| Office standard not .Net and C# |
| PB is a great product. Please make it live for
long & make it up-to-date. |
| Sybase should advertise more to promote PB.
I recently received an email for an online session from ideablade
(I do not know the correct name. They advertise in MSDN), a
microsoft partner on how to get rid of powerbuilder. |
| Remains a great tool for what it was designed
for - rapid dB client/serverapplication development tool. |
| Can get unstable, specially with EAserver components. |
| PowerBuilder is one of the best and most productive
development tools available. We are glad when our competitors
move to Java or .NET because we can code circles around them.
This means we can make more profit or beat the competition with
a lower price. |
| HI, Can we make the deployment kit in Powerbuilder
which has GUI to include pbds or dlls, Powerbuilder support
dlls, powerbuilder resource file, DB related dlls and other
support files required for applications to run in Windows or
Mac environment. Please do that. It would really make PB a complete
RAD tool. Thanks Kumar Krishnan |
| We have 5 of us using Powerbuilder 9. Three
others have migrated to PB11. We as developers like PB very
much for developing windows quickly. Our business is DNA profiling
(Paternity testing, Convicted Offender testing, and Bone Marrow
testing. Our manager is trying to find a replacement for PB,
but it will be hard. |
| Still fastest time to market dev environment,
makes .NET a lot faster to work with too. |
| Very good RAPID development tool in general |
| I've worked with PB from version 3 to version
10 for about 18 years. IMHO I feel it was a great tool when
client/server was the hot new thing. I've watched PB try to
hang on to it's dominace when the movement to web began. It
appears to me that Sybase didn't keep the level of inovation
that Powersoft had. I don't know what was really going on in
the boardrooms of Sybase but from my point of view, it appears
they tried to ride the wave of PB popularity with limited or
no continued investment. Kevin Hertz Developer City & County
of Denver |
| .Net WinForms in PB 11 offers no advantages
and has many dis-advantages, such as memory and installation
footprint, contains unmanaged code, does not run in 64 bit mode,
existing applications need major re-write to deploy as winform.
If not improved, will stop using PB in (rel 12) timeframe |
| I have been using PowerBuilder since 1993. After
using .NET on a few application recently I am having more problems
continuing to develop in PowerBuilder due to reliability and
limitation issues. We can just code in .NET and not have the
problems when we deploy web services, web applications and such.
Also the .NET IDE is amazing with the way it does autoscript.
We have had reliability issues with using datawindow .NET in
Visual Studio as well. (Locks up and requires a restart of Visual
Studio.) Keep moving forward making PowerBuilder compatible
with Visual Studio and reliable and we would love to continue
using it. Our experience with Appeon was that is was half-baked
and had so many issues that we don't recommend it anymore. We
could have written the application in .NET and had it run 10
times more reliable. |
| Love the product. Hate the fact few places use
it and I will probably have to move to a new platform or change
fields. |
| Unfortunately, we are migrating all of our applications
to asp .net / C# |
| With only two or three PB developers, our company
has created numerous applications in a short period of time
which end up benefiting several departments within the company.
Our systems are robust, very maintainable, and are the envy
of the other IT groups. PowerBuilder rocks when done by the
right people with the proper experience. |
| PowerBuilder and Enterprise Application Server
can be a formidable combination. Please continue to invest in
both and make them the leading edge technology of choice. |
| We have a large application built using PB and
EAF running on EAServer and an Oracle database. Please keep
supporting / enhancing the web DataWindow! |
| Client server days are gone! Powersoft before
sybase missed a HUGE oppty! This a lesson on simply giving up
.... MARKET SHARE! BIG LESSON! I am glad I stuck with new technologies
like Java, and .Net!!! |
| Still doing the job quite nicely! Our Appeon
shell gives us what we need for Web Development. |
| People don't know what they are missing, if
you see the time needed in other projects using Visual Studio.
Powerbuilder is RAD ! |
| I like the direction that PB is moving in but
for our company the decision has already been made to hire to
an outside consultant to re-write the application from the ground
up in C#/ASP.NET This is unfortunate because PB is still the
best tool for client/server development and it is danger of
becoming just another 3rd party component of Visual Studio. |
| J'espère que PowerBuilder permettra rapidement
de concevoir des applications riches et complexe pour le Web
|
| J'espère que PowerBuilder permettra rapidement
de concevoir des applications riches et complexe pour le Web
|
| La suppression d'APPMODELER est inadmissible
et nous force à acheter un outils dont nous n'utilisons que
10%. La gestion du multi-langue devrait être intégré à PB (ENABLE) |
| Produits beaucoup trop chere |
| PB est un outil puissant, et apprécié pour sa
stabilité. Il est par contre assez limité au niveau des liens
avec MS Word, et la dw ole assez peu efficace pour réaliser
des documents avec images, tableau, ... Nous avons recours au
PDF mais c'est une lourde limitation que de ne pouvoir modifier
le document une fois éditer Idem pour les exports Excel qui
ne prenne pas en compte la mise en page. |
| Manque d'exemples concrets sur les differentes
possibilités un peu trop brut (demande beaucoup de connaissance
pour utiliser PB) (principe de windev ou il y a beaucoup d'exemple
d'utilisation) |
| En PB10, Les composants graphiques proposés
ne sont pas d'une esthétique très actuelle et n'ont quasiment
pas évolués depuis la version 6. Idem pour la datawindow. Ils
manquent des tas d'objets graphiques, de widgets, de controles
qui existent dans d'autres ateliers (Delphi par exemple). Quand
on regarde une appli écrite en PB10, on fait un saut de 5 ans
en arrière au niveau de l'IHM. C'est très peu vendeur auprès
des clients qui attachent toujours plus d'importance à l'esthétique
(aux gadgets) qu'au fonctionnel. Il y a aussi beaucoup trop
de bugs dans l'IDE qui PLANTE sans arrêt. On s'habitue et on
prend l'habitude de sauver après chaque ligne écrite, mais malheureusement,
cela donne UNE TRES MAUVAISE IMAGE auprès des développeurs.
Après 7 ans d'utilisation, je commence moi aussi, en m'en lasser
sérieusement, même si je reconnais qu'il a des qualités qu'on
a du mal a retrouver ailleurs (intégration avec la DB, rapidité,
robustesse d'execution avec les PBD, modele objet, datawindow,
etc). |
| En attente de la version 12 en espérant une
profonde refonte de l'interface de l'outil et une intégration
totale .Net. |
| Best .Net RAD development tool in my opinion
and the DB connectivity is next to none! |
| The IDE is NOT user friendly... You should have
a look at what Microsoft did with VisualStudio to see how efficient
that Development tool is compared to the ever crashing PowerBuilder
IDE... Source Control integration is just BAD in PB9... So many
annoying flickers in the library tree control when you check-out/undo
check-out of an object... Driving me crazy. |
| I dislike: PB crashing regularly Inability to
edit an ancestor and a child object at the same time Long compile
times Poor debugger |
| Au niveau de l'interface graphique, permettre
d'obtenir la même ergonomie (icônes, look, ..)que les versions
de windows les plus récentes (vista, ..) |
| Marketing as usual is weak and no new book commissioned
for 11 and baove |
| I love the tool. One language to deploy to multiple
platforms: Client/Server, Handhelds, and now the Web! It does
almost everything we need it to do. I'm glad Sybase is now offering
a path to .Net to leverage our current skill set. This is the
core business application for our company so we are very vested
in it's future. |
| PowerBuilder is the perfect product for our
internal application development environment. Straigh-forward
development environment. We use PowerBuilder to support bullet-proof
mission-critical applications. No experimenting with new tools
just for the sake that a new tools exists. |
| "PowerBuilder is a diamond sold like coal. Competitor
products are coal, but they promise diamonds out of it - Suresh
Thoduvail" I have worked for 10 years in PB from ver 4.00 to
10.5 & made money. here is my 2 cents back: 1. Commission books
when you release new versions. 2. Provide documentation & support
for new versions(for eg: for depoloying into Dot net web form,
setpointer not supported in existing applications, then what
do we use instead of this function. When you say not supported,
then provide alternative). |
| As my company is planning to migrate to Visual
Studi 2005 in order to use .Net technology, I would like to
know what will happen to Powerbuilder if most of the companies
intend to migrate to .Net and they want to stop using PB. |
| I would like to be able to use boolean searches
in the PowerBuilder IDE library text search. |
| I hope PowerBuilder can be saved. |
| If Sybase actually used marketing for PB, it
would be big again. |
| W ehave been using PB for a long time and still
find it an excellent tool for development. We intend to keep
using it and are pleased to see the future plan that Sybase
has for the product. |
| I'm the last hope for continued PB development
in my shop, but it seems to be a losing battle to the .NET developers
who haven't ever learned PB and management who is afraid Sybase
is legacy and going out of business. We have enough applications
that PB will be around for awhile, but all new work (except
mine) will be .NET, for better or worse (worse, I say). |
| The web services and .net integration in v9
promised by Sybase was virtually a fraud. When we found that
out, we decided to move away from anything Sybase for good.
Sybase Australia has proved difficult to work with and Sybase
is, in our opinion, developer-unfriendly. We think Sybase's
future (and PowerBuilder's) is not good. |
| We are having using the SOAP calls from PB10.2
to a generic web service. It seems PB does not put out standard
SOAP xml which is causing a lot of problems in testing. It would
be nice to have better documentation on SOAP and what code PB
will actually generate in XML |
| No local support = no one uses any more (but
this is about the 5th time I've said that. |
| Powerbuilder is close to dead, there are few
new projects using it and few jobs advetised. I am a long-term
Powerbuilder developer but I feel I need to move on to another
language avoid my career dying too. Powerbuilder needs to move
much more quickly to seamless .Net integration and enable website
deployment otherwise there will soon be no developers and no
projects left for anyone to care what happens next! |
| I rated PB 7/10 but it would be 9/10 if not
for the instability and random crashes for no apparent reason. |
| Powerbuilder provides basically everything I
need to develop an application for a desktop PC. We use version
9 but will be upgrading to the latest version soon. The web
integration in version 9 is pretty shakey. We have waited for
the latest version to upgrade to take advantage of the .Net
integration. It appears that Sybase has decided to build atop
of Microsoft technologies as opposed to reinventing the wheel.
This is a great decision. I've looked at the marketing material
for the next version and I hope when I get a chance to evaluate
the latest PB version that it will meet my expectations. My
next task is to build a website. |
| I design apps that are sold to consumers who
expect a modern look and feel. 10.5 definitely is an improvement
but PB desperately needs to be enhanced to allow for modern,
slick, Vista style interfaces. As well, I use PB Desktop because
that has all of the features I need. In PB 11 however the .NET
features I'd like to use are all restricted to Enterprise. This
is a big mistake from a marketting perspective. If I learn PB.NET
in my own business, then I use it at client sites. Client sites
will always need PB Enterprise. By including .NET in Desktop,
people can learn it cheaply and see everything it can do, then
convince clients to invest in Enterprise. More money for Sybase. |
| I am desperately looking at Sybase, India to
market PB as much as possible in India and in particular, in
Mumbai. I look forward to their assistance in approaching numerous
IT companies in Mumbai and convince them in choosing PB as the
preferred development platform in their upcoming projects. This
way, ex-PB programmers can once again deep-dive in the newly
found PB market of Mumbai. |
| Outil en perte de vitesse, il deviens de plus
en plus difficile de recruter des personnes sur cette technologie |
| sur la version 11, il est possible de passer
une application en winForm ou webForm. Cependant, la version
en webForm a un design affreux. Je n'est pas reussi a installer
du flash facilement, le postback est pour l'ensemble de la page
et pas pour la Datawindow que l'on vient de retrivé comme dans
ajax |
| Nous sommes très satisfait du produit. Il est
performant, assez convivial et surtout très stable (runtime).
Le GUI aurait besoin d'une modernisation plus intensive, avec
peut être une ouverture vers le monde Web 2.0 et les différents
outils du marché. Comparé à ses concurrents comme "Visual ...
" et Cie, pour PB il est souvent très difficile ou impossible
de trouver des infos techniques ou "How to do", ou bien les
exemples sont trop simples et donc inadaptés pour le monde réel.
Actuellement, l'avenir et surtout la pérénité de PB sont difficiles
à évaluer, cela ne facilite pas les planifications à long terme. |
| 10 ans de mariage avec PB, c'est ce que nous
appellons de la fidélité et nous croyons encore aux dix prochaines
années d'une union profitable. |
| Our large commercial application is written
in PowerBuilder. We depend on it now and for the future! |
| Enhance the development environment, look at
Microsoft .Net 2005: - their intellisense if FAR ahead of PB
- The automated Camel Casing is the best, we don't have to care
Uppercases/LowerCases - The script autoindent is better than
PB. In brief, the .Net 2005 development is better than PB but
PB is faster on development than .Net...the best would be to
have the Power of PB in the .Net environment :) Enhance the
Debugger, it's really painfull, crashes often, don't remember
breakpoint changes, sometimes skip breakpoints...again, look
at .Net 2005 |
| PB is aging and not integrating as well as we
would have liked with other technologies |
| Sybase roadmaps take FOREVER! They need to step
on the GAS! |
| PB, while a good tool is near dead. I'm finding
.net and visual studio to be a suitable replacement. If these
was a good rad tool for php I'd be into that to. |
| More window dressing elements. Bombard the web
with the How-to examples from Apps and .net side. |
| The datawindow is terrific, keep up the good
work, but spend some time on working out the 'quirks' of the
actual development environment. They are many and varied, and
odds are you already are aware of them. I understand some of
the irritants I am referring to have been resolved in PB11,
however the small non-profit mental health center I work for
does not have the budget to upgrade this year (we are currently
at PB10.5). Thanks for a solid, productive product. |
| Question 1 would be more: between 2 - 5 years,
but anything can change between now and then |
| PowerBuilder is a very robust development tool,
and in a real sense a RAD tool. But due to its poor marketing
strategies it has lost its charm, if the same was with Microsoft
PB could have been the most used tool in the market, so sybase
should start thinking positively to retain and gain existing
and new customers. |
| DEFINATELY POWERBUILDER IS THE EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT
TOOL BUT THERE IS NO FUTURE OR WE CAN SAY NO CAREER FOR A POWERBUILDER
PROGRAMMER, FROM LAST 9 YEARS I AM WORKING ON POWERBUILDER IN
BAHRAIN AND WHEN I HAVE BEEN TO INDIA, I HAVE SEEN THAT THERE
IS NOT EVEN A COMPANY USING POWERBUILDER AND DIFFICULT TO GET
JOB FOR POWERBUILDER PROGRAMMER AND EVEN THE BOOK STALL HAVE
STOPPED SELLING POWERBUILDER BOOKS, I AM SORRY TO SAY BUT THE
TRUTH IS POWERBUILDER PROGRAMMER'S FUTURE IS IN GREAT DANGER
IF THEY STILL CONTINUE WITH POWERBUILDER |
| we have been waitin for the version that supports
.Net for 2 years now and we hope it would be avaliable soon |
| Improvement of PASP 1.0 and PB for Linux |
| Some ide changes can make the work much easier.
For instance, right click on a function in the code should give
a context menu with the option to jump to it. Another missing
nice right-click option would be to format the script code (check
eclipse context-menu to see some other nice ideas) |
| I wish you can do anything about making a RightToLeft
CROSSTAB. |
| Learning tools are difficult to get and there
are less powerbuilder books available in the market when compared
to Ms development tools |
| le client serveur existe toujours dans notre
société. Il co¹te bien moins cher a développer que les applications
web . Si tout le monde est sur un réseau interne , le client-serveur
suffit. Tous les exécutables sont sur un serveur de fichier
et nous n'avons pas besoin d'installer nos applications partout,
contrairement à ce que prétendre les commerciaux. Nous n'avons
pas trouvé de bug dans les produits PB 6.5 à 9 |
| Please Please Please fix some bugs!! The developer
studio should NEVER blow up! How about looking at the .Net studio
and stealing some ideas. Like toolbars that slide away when
your cursor is not positioned over them. That would allow more
viewing space. Full regen of code should 'OPTIMIZE' as an option.
Duh! And datawindows should recompile as well, meaning they
should hit the database. We've changed fields in the database
and had to physically touch the datawindow in order for the
datawindow to reflex the change. WRONG! Also equally anoying
is while editing a datawindow, and clicking the properties box
to another tab, then clicking on another field in the datawindow,
MAKES THE DATAWINDOW OBJECT MOVE TO A NEW LOCATION!! This issues
still exists! Very minor league! I would scream at my development
team for this bug that has lasted for ever, even in PB11. FOR
THESE REASONS ALONE I KNOW PEOPLE ARE SWITCHING TO .NET, DUE
TO AN UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT STUDIO. CALL ME IF NEEDED. I CAN
LOCATE A FEW DOZEN MORE IF NEEDED. |
| you have killed PB! Sybase is slowly dieing
in a growing market... You do not even do reserches on a negative
responses:) |
| 1 - PB is more graphic and more astable and
easy than any DB development tool in market sucah as oracle
and ADO .net and Java as so on, and what will happen if PB compete
Java and .net in more graphic and more bure object oriented
code and good editor such as C# 2008 or netbeen6.1 i think that
it will be the most tool will be used for world |
| I'll never chnage PowerBuilder I just want sybase
to give more annoucement like microsoft and oracle ,specially
in middle east |
| PB support from Sybase is expensive |
| Sybase SA suck. They don't market Powerbuilder
and even speak out against it. |
| If it will be easy for the developer to develop
web based applications in Powerbuilder then I think PowerBuilder
future will be very bright. Also there should be video/other
tutorials available on net like other programming languages
and tools. PowerBuilder help especially for web development
is very less available on internet. I have seen many CBTs for
others and they really help a lot in learning that tool. So
PowerBuilder should also provide such CBTs. |
| Powerbuilder is probably one of the most powerful
tools out there when it comes to programmingà just a pity Sybase
doesnÆt market it better and it is busy being replaced slowly
but surely with other less powerful tools. |
| The test point will be if companies will decide
to start a new projects with Power-Builder ! |
| PB keeps involving in an impressive rate, but
its foundations are just poor. The IDE constantly crashes, and
provide a fraction of the functionality modern IDEs provide
(when will we finally get a decent source browser, other than
the great Visual Expert?). The debugger is horrible as well
(when will they finally solve the ancient missing and reappearing
debug breakpoints?). All and all, it seems like Sybase's strategy
is being appealing to the decision makers, who get impressed
by shiny stuff like WPF, rather than to the developers, who
actually have to use the IDE. |
| There is no other object oriented programming
tool available to develop database oriented application as user
friendly like powerbuilder.I emphasis again that the weak in
support and lack of campaign is one of the reason for the less
users in asian countries. |
| I would like to see simple tools or build-in
tools from PB to regenerate the old PB application and make
it running as web application working under browser |
| A lower price will allow many more people to
use and accept PB technology. Access to PB Developer Network
will allow many more people to learn how to develop PB Apps
in Africa |
| Depending on testing & experements over PowerBuilder
version 8 & later, compared to other product like visual studio
2005 & later, we found that in the development of windows applications
PB is dominating any competitor. PB needs to support web more
effectively to be like ASP.net. It is very clear to us that
Sybase lake of good advertisment. If PB was a product from Microsoft
you will see it definitly the number 1 development tool. |
| In my country -Jordan- PowerBuilder use is going
to vanish, there is no support for it, and no more developers
you can find. in my opinion PowerBuilder is a very great development
tool and I like it too much. |
| Still PB is the Best...please market it in proper
way and find someway to attract new developers to PB.Wish you
all the best |
| i work before oracle,vb, but win i work in PowerBuilder
I fond my self with this language ,what I Need as Programmer
I Can Do it ,But In The Other language Not easy to do for that
I dont need To Change this language ,and the DataBase Very Easy
To Use and The Speed of database in the network its faster. |
| Sybase brings alway the needed extentions when
it's to late, because everybody did mak his workaround ... App
Server PLuging should be developer license and in Standard package
!!! NO two different IDE's for different targets !!!!! |
| As every year: Sybase please make life easier
for companies which develop software with Sybase tools. Less
and less customers know Sybase. They all say PowerBuilder is
a dead approach. Marketing and marketing. Instead of to distrust
your customers, please Sybase support them. |
| A more stable IDE and Debugger would be extremly
nice |
| Thx for developping powerbuilder continously
always regarding the important technologies (xml, .net, soap,
etc.). We work with web services (ASP .NET). It works fine.
We try to bring our powerbuilder software to .NET WinForm with
PB11. But the results are not bugfree although no error message
or unsupported feature message is shown. The .NET-version is
much slower, this must be improved. Linux version would be highly
appreciated. More and more people want Linux as front end. |
| Se necesitan desarrollar objetos mas bonitos
visualmente, permitir tener varios estilos por ejemplo en botones
y ventanas, o la creacion de un objeto panel o un objeto para
los menus de la aplicacion. Evolucionar en la elegacia y sorpreder
con el aspecto de las aplicaciones que el se pueden desarrollar
a parte de seguir con un sistema robusto. Hay que ser mas detallistas
con el aspecto por que es lo que se vende al cliente |
| Me gustaría que se realizara un mayor despliegue
de las nuevas funcionalidades de la herramienta en nuestro país,
foros o algo donde se presente mejor todo lo nuevo de Power
Builder. |
| la migraciàn entre versiones no es perfecta
y lleva mucho tiempo adaptar el càdigo a las nuevas versiones.
Cuando ya hemos cambiado a otra versiàn ustedes sacan la siguiente
y así siempre. Hasta la versiàn 11 powerbuilder va muy por detras
de otras herramientas para desarrollos orientados a internet. |
| Van a sacar una versiàn de PB11 para windows
2000 como plataforma de desarrollo. Gracias |
| Poor graphical features, main users like to
see a rich graphic interfase, I've working from PB 5.0 up to
10.2 user interfase is pretty much the same. |
| Quisiera que hubieran ejemplos en .net para
poderlas aplicar en mi empresa |
| en nuestro pais El Salvador powerbuilder esta
perdiendo mucho mercado ya que las tecnologias Java y .NET estas
abarrotando el mercado, por que son menos costosas, para mi
la herramienta de desarrollo en Powerbuilder es una de las mejores
en el mercado, lo unico malo es que la empresa Sybase no toma
encuenta a los Latino americanos en cuanto a proporcionar manuales
e informacion en español, esa es otra de las desventajas de
powerbuilder que no se encuentra mucha informacion para aprender
a dominar las nuevas mejoras de la herramienta y si encontramos
informacion solo existe en ingles, para mi sybase debe ya de
velar por los desarrolladores de habla hispana y proporcionarnos
la suficiente infromacion para seguir utilizando y aprendiendo
esta herramienta. |
| Creo que PowerBuilder es la numero Uno en aplicaciones
Cliente/Servidor. Sin embargo por experiencias en desarrollo
de aplicaciones n-capas con Java/PowerBuilder sobre plataformas
Unix-Linux no funciona. Seguramente por lo ineficiente del servidor
EAServer o por los problemas de PBVM que nunca terminan de solucionarse.
En fin hay un sin numero de buenos pretextos para ya dejar de
lado PowerBuilder |
| Creo que es un error que se le haya llamado
PowerBuilder al IDE. Para muchos profesionistas que utilizan
o han utilizado la herramienta PowerBuilder es sinónimo del
lenguaje de desarrollo, no del IDE. Para mí utilizar PowerBuilder
para desarrollo web es una contradicción de terminos ya que
PowerBuilder es un lenguaje de desarrollo propiamente cliente/servidor.
De hecho, el DataWindow Object y el DataWindow Control, que
fueron el motor que impulsó PowerBuilder en la decada de los
90, han sido precísamente el obstáculo para que PowerBuilder
se pueda utilizar para desarrollar en web ya que la tecnología
(ASP, JSP) es distinta. Lo que deben hacer es llamar al IDE
PowerStudio donde uno pueda desarrollar ya sea para la plataforma
WinForm utilizando PowerBuilder/DataWindows o para la plataforma
WebForm utilizando ASP.NET y PowerBuilder/DataWindows (en lugar
de C#). Entonces tendrían un éxito en sus manos ya que si me
dan a escoger entre programar en C# o programar en PowerBuilder
prefiero PowerBuilder porque ya lo conozco y con las DataWindows
es mucho más eficiente para el acceso a las bases de datos.
Mi calificación de 7 es porque no siento que hayan mejorado
PowerBuilder como Microsoft ha mejorado C# o Visual Basic, ni
tampoco han mejorado el IDE de PowerBuilder como Microsoft ha
mejorado Visual Studio. |
| Tuve muchos problemas con algunos resultados
de Datawindows en la version 10.x pero al actualizar con el
parche se solucionaron. Definitivamente el DW es una poderosa
Herramienta, Me gustaria mas informacion sobre como poner mi
aplicativo en la web sin muchos cambios. se que con .net. |
| los felicitos por las grandes mejoras que le
han hecho a las versiones... |
| SE ESPERA UNA VERSION EN ESPANOOOOLLLL.... |
| Sybase debe desarrollar una tecnología propia
en Webform y no aportar a la plataforma .NET |
| Yo soy desarrollador y estoy enamorado de la
facilidad para la distribucion de mis aplicaciones nada de instaladores
ni nada raro, y los pocos recurso que consume, corro clientes
hasta en pentium 100Mhz con win 98 y 64 de ram. Bueno la data
windows es un tema aparte la debe haber creado Dios mismo, estoy
muy contento de haber conocido Power Builder no quiero desarrollar
en ningun otro lenguaje. |
| Thanks for this survey Gracias por la encuesta
y sigan asi! |
| Excelente herramienta para desarrollo de aplicaciones
Cliente/Servidor... Para el desarrollo de aplicaciones Web se
decidio utilizar tecnología Java/J2EE basado en el IDE y utilitarios
de Eclipse. |
| Falta mas difusion de la herramienta. Una buena
opcion es lo que está haciendo Microsoft al dar cursos gratis
online. |
| Deberia existir mas opciones para el Desarrollador,
al menos en poder conseguir a costo mas bajo las nuevas versiones
o si no es imposible cambiarse a PB11. |
| Lejos pero lejos! Power Builder es el mejor
lenguaje para manejos de datos. LLevo casi 15 años desarrollando
con PB y me ha dado muchas satisfacciones. He desarrollado todo
tipo de aplicaciones inclusive controlando hardware en tiempo
real. OLVIDENSE DE .NET Es una basura lenta que consume demasiados
recursos incluso el RunTime es PATETICO! |
| En lo personal llevo trabajando con Power Builder
alrededor de 10 años y encuentro que es la mejor plataforma
gráfica de programaciàn. |
| Integracion WEB 100%, Disminucion del Costo
de la herramienta de desarrollo |
| Gracias por interesarse en hacer un seguimiento
a usuarios y tecnologias pb con estas encuestas. |
| Powerbuilder es una herramienta muy poderosa,
que facilita a los desarrolladores al momento de crear sistemas.
Tener soporte para linux y la integraciàn con servicios web,
sería aditivo bastante importante. |
| Hemos probado con PB 9 , 10. Utilizar datawindows
- Richtext donde generalmente hay mal funcionamiento al generarlos
no ha mejorado. ? Estros problemas se resuelven con el PB11
? |
| No hay mayor experiencia y asesoria en herramientas
para entorno Web. |
| As we have seen Powerbuilder goes straight ahead
to .NET . I think this will be the point when we will change
away from PB :-(( . |
| Deberia haber mayor difusion de la herramienta
asi como mayor cantidad de centros de capácitacion competentes.
Powerbuilder debe evolucionar al mismo ritmo que sus competidores
para no quedarse atras. |
| Utilizamos PFC en nuestra aplicacion, hemos
implementado el tema de seguridad, y la utilizacion de las clases
que esta provee |
| power builder es muy bueno como C/S |
| eguimos investigando como migrar desde un DataWindows
a Excell |
| Falta mayor soporte y facilidades para integrar
aplicaciones al ambiente J2EE |
| Herramienta capaz de producir alto rendimiento
y productividad en el desarrollo y mantenciàn de aplicaciones.
|
| Actualmente estoy aprendiendo EAServer para
integrar mis aplicaciones a la web, usando las datawindow de
las PBL, pero necesito mas informaciàn, alguna ayuda sobre esto
? |
| El diseñador de Datawindows deb mejorar dramaticamente
para crear reportes complejos con mayor facilidad. |
| Too many crashs !!! |
| REVISAR LA FORMA DE LICENCIAMIENTO DE PB11 ACTUALMENTE
EXISTE MUCHOS IDE LIBRE |
| Es necesario una mayor difusion de la herramienta. |
| Un poco de Portabilidad a otros sistemas operativos
como linux o solaris |
| Mejorar aplicaciones generadas a .Net a partir
de PB. Actualmente su rendimiento es muy lento. |
| Power Builder es uno de los lenguajes que mas
utilizo para mis aplicaciones, debido a que simplifica bastante
los procesos en cuanto a validaciones. muchas gracias |
| Herramienta muy poderosa para el Desarrollo.
Se perdià la interacciàn con Power Designer. |
| aun no tengo amplia experiencia. sugeriria me
enviaran link para documentarme un poco mas sobre este sistema
de desarrollo |
| Es mi primer lenguaje dentro de mi desarrollo
profesional. |
| Si tienen la solucion para exportar a Excell
desde un DataWindows |
| Integration with source control (refreshing
objects) need to be better and faster. I like more control HTML
generation of datawindow/reports (need to use the same style
sheet or tags option). Multi-threaded programming for some long
running reports. Creating more sophisticated Install programs
Tool for generating correct code fro Datawindow Modfiy/describe
Better marketing of this tool(reduce prize) so that it is more
affordable to all Port it Linux Create some more demo and learning
tutorial for newbies. |
| Excelente |
| PowerBuilder esta AGONIZANDO !!!!!! se dejo
poner la "pata" de .Net pero lejos !!!!!! NO es comercial ...
que pesar porque es un gran producto ... pero Sybase se "durmio
en el veneno" |
| Mas libros o tuturiales sobre el uso de este
lenguaje ,,, utilizando las ultimas tecnologia. |
| EN PERU PARECE QUE ESTUVIERAMOS PERDIENDO FUERZA,
ANTES TRABAJABA EN PROVINCIA, AHORA EN LA CAPITAL LIMA, Y CADA
VES MENOS OPCIONES LABORALES, PARECE QUE SYBASE PERU NO LE IMPORTA
AUMENTAR SU CARTERA DE CLIENTES, Y LOS PARNERTS SON NADA, ESPEREMOS
QUE ENTREN CON BIBLIOGRAFIA EN ESPANOL PARA MOTIVAR A NUEVOS
PROGRAMADORES O A LOS DESERTORES. SALUDOS. |
| PowerBuilder es bueno para el desarrollo de
software, pero creo que falta dar mas informacion por parte
de los creadores de PowerBuilder sobre como manejar las API's.
Hay muy poca informacion sobre este tema y la que existe, esta
en ingles, deberian mostrarla en Castellano. Un abrazo. |
| Me guataria que le den mas fuerza al tema del
Pocket Builder |
| Que por favor integren el PB pa Linux |
| Es necesario que power builder pueda correr
sobre linux, porque cada vez esta llegando con más fuerza el
software libre, las corporaciones exigen que se desarrolle sobre
software libre. |
| Estuve mucho tiempo en Microsoft hasta q conocí
Power Builder ahora soy un desarrollador adicto a esta herramienta |
| PowerBUilder sigue siendo una muy buena herramienta
de desarrollo , pero tiene que mejorar para mantener su segmento
de mercado. |
| En mi trabajo actuasl no lo utilizan pero en
particular sigo desarrollando como consuultor o asesor a pequeñas
y medianas empresas. Ademas de hacer aplicaciones personales.
Quisiera sdaber si me pueden enviar la ultima version de powerbuilder
y de power designer de ser posible remitirla a: Calle Urdaneta
Casa #28 Cumana Estado Sucre Venezuela |
| Deseamos codigos o ejemplos mas abertos para
los usuarios |
| probablemente migraciàn de las aplicaciones
powerbuilder hacia Java en unos 2 años. (por desgracia). |
| If pb coded software can be used both in web
and client server without major changes it is the best. There
is no proper marketing statages for PB. So new porogrammers
in PB is less as well as PB developers availibity is less. PB
support as well as training is to be provided properly |
| Eventhough pb is having lot may functionalities
and new features, Nothing been revealed to the companies/developers.
May do something to reach to everybody easily and there is no
proper materials also. It would be good by taking necessary
steps to give publicity or awareness about existing & new features. |
| Debería haber más funciones integradas en Powerbuilder,
para no tener que utilizar funciones externas que llaman a dlls
de win32, como por ejemplo comunicaciones por puertos serie,
VPN,... |
| Some Problems developing Webform Application
with PB 11.2 |
| Experiencing a lot of problems with this transition
stage because more and ore ActiveX is available as .NET only
and presently can't be integrated. |
| Powerbuilder is now only used for legacy applications
(admittedly the bulk of our business). We cannot wait for Powerbuilder
to catch up with .NET 3.5 |
| We would love to develop .net applications for
web forms using PB, but the lack of browser support drives us
away. |
| I think once PB is fully .NET compliant it will
see a resurgence in use because development is so much faster
in PB than in Java or other current fashionable technologies |
| still crashes quite a bit, but being a user
with 13 years of pb you come to expect that. also the debugger
is still quite unstable. |
| NEEDS MORE ADVERTISING, BLOGS, ARTICLES ETC
TO MAKE IT POPULAR/COOL AGAIN |
| The Datawindow is still perfect, the language
itself is quite allright. However PB tends to crash a lot and
being more of a C++/C# programmer I like more control over the
editing environment, for instance seeing the procedure definitions
themselves instead of having to go into edit source to see them |
| I am now using PB6.5. I will soon test 11.2
to check if the databaseproblems etc. that I have encountered
with PB10 is solved. If not, I will go back to PB6.5 (the last
stable version). I hope that PB11 will generate proper PDF documents
(reports). |
| Excellent RAD tool easy data repository access.
But stability is still an issue and I am still missing some
object oriented features e.g. overload of the contstructure
function e.c.t |
| Looking forward for the full .NET migration
in version 12 - if this fails, we will stop using PowerBuilder. |
| Several years there are rumours about migrating
from PowerBuilder to a pure .Net-architecture, but as long as
.net-database-applications are less maintainable there is a
good argument for continuing with PowerBuilder. |
| Its a waste of space - Sybase should sell it
to sombody who is willing to invest in it or kill it off completely
- it would be a more humane way to treat it! |
| Please continue development of this powerful
tool! |
| Sadly, our current plan is to be 100% off of
PowerBuilder and converted to .NET within the next two years.
.NET resources are plentiful, PowerBuilder resources are becoming
more and more scarce. |
| Since we are almost exclusively using PB it
is increasingly difficult to communicate with other (external)
applications since they ask for XML, webservices etc. We don't
have that knowledge (would be nice is the PB doc includes an
overvieuw of the required knowledge to take advantage of these
new features) and objects/functions to support in this program
to program communication. As alway it is extremely difficult
to find new staff (perminent and temporary) with the required
PB knowledge. |
| I think it would be very useful if you put in
the results a graph with the number of people that had taken
the survey every year. It would be a good indicator, along as
the results already provided. Thanks. |
| I still don't understand why Sybase have left
such a good tool as PowerBuilder go down the drain. Is their
common policy? |
| My only conern is for the longeivity of our
(client/server) product - a suite of applications with a look
and feel of the 12 years of age they are. XP-style controls
and freeware/3rd party menu interfaces (from codeexchange) help
to improve appearance but ultimately we will lose out against
competitors with more contemporary looking software. |
| Creo que es una Heramienta de Facil programacion
para los desarrolladores de software y esperemos q |
| Is very import for us to have in PB the LINUX
support |
| Powerbuilder is still a great dev tool. I wouldn't
change it for the world ! I hope Sybase will stay around and
continues with Powerbuilder... John |
| Don't get fancy! Improve on what PowerBuilder
is strong and reliable. In other Words: todays best COmmon Business
Oriented Language |
| Please give the source of PB to me. I want to
developt it. What are you doing sybase?. Do you waiting the
date of the die of Powerbuilder. We will never use web futures
of Pb. It is client server developing tool. It is best tool.
You forgetted this. You spend the time. |
| PowerBuilder .Net should be delivered immediately.
|
| Para mi power Builder esta sobrado, el detalle
es que las empresas buscan desarrollos en .Net esto por ser
Microsoft, al menos esoes lo que ocurre en mi pais, las empresas
desarrolladoras se enfocan mas en el respaldo de Microsoft. |
| SERIA IMPORTANTE QUE DENTRO DEL DEBUGS SE PUDIERA
REALIZAR ANALISIS DE IMPACTO SI NECESIDAD DE TENER UNA HERRAMIENTA
ALTERNA QUE INCREMENTA LOS COSTOS. |
| PB needs to be completely .NET based, there
should be new charts which are really pathetic. Database applications
that retrieve images from the database, paging is really needed.
There is no beautification element, eventhough it is there,
it is very difficult to do it, CSS implementation is also tough.
There should be lot of benefits to the developer to use it,
Only the developers will take the product to a greater height
and they will act as word of mouth. |
| PB es lo máximo. |
| bugs resolutions is getting really important |
| Buen paquete de desarrollo |
| I develop applications using .Net, VB6, C++,
C#, Pascal, ..., I see that PowerBuilder is the best but SYBASE
is the Worst in marketing and actualy this is the main Defect
in PowerBuilder. |
| I am currently migrating a PB10.5 application
to PB11 WebForm. PB11 is an amazing product. I have issues with
PFC dropdown calender, DDDw's. Also want to be able to call
server side javascript whenever I want. Despite these issues,
fantasic first shot at .Net implementation...please keep it
up. I have 3 years experience with Visual Studio .Net and PB11
is far superior in terms of productivity. |
| Ninguno |
| Powerbuilder is definitely a superior development
tools for quick and efficient application development. Too bad
the industry is shifting towards technology that requires a
lot more development time without much gain for the end user. |
| Debería ser una plataforma que se integre fácilmente
con IIS y todo el entorno web de forma más natural, aunque soy
un admirador de powerbuilder hay que reconocer que en el entorno
web están retrazados respecto a .net, y además en Ecuador han
perdido el mercado empresarial que hace un par de años era dominado
por Powerbuilder, incluso en las universidades ya no se lo enseña
y por tanto cada vez es más dificil conseguir egresados o ingenieros
que sepan el lenguaje. Saludos Marlon Tulcán 095861621 |
| WE WOULD LIKE THE WEB SERVICES INTEGRATION TO
BE INDEPENTANT FROM THE CHOICE OF THE APPLICATION SERVER NOT
OBLIGATORY EAS. |
| too focused on microsoft market... desperately
need support for other OS |
| La forma en la que se desarrollan las aplicaciones
son muy rápidas y càmodas pero hay veces que los errores que
nos dan en los que se pierden datos son muy frecuentes y llegan
a desesperar. Hemos probado a trabajar sin antivirus y solo
con el PowerBuilder en memeoria (además del Windows) y no soluciona
nada. Espero que en pràximas releases esto mejore |
| Still have to find a more performant development
tool |
| PB is best tool for building robust client/server
application with thousands objects. We can make all, what end
users need :-) |
| There's lots of functionalities that should
be native not done by external services. Please speed up with
PB12. We're all waiting for IDE,DW Graph,.Net integration improvements.
|
| Biggest issue is that Sybase did not market
it for so long. Now there are virtually no resources avaiable
that will work using this language. It is either .Net or Java.
We even have problems getting resources offshore to work in
this language. |
| I am enjoying woking with PB! I think DW technology
still has no equivalent. Some work has to be done for improving
application & IDE stability, multithreading (including easier
usage of asynchronous DW retrieval and asynchronous WEB download)
of pure GUI applications (not .NET ones), graphics processing
functionality, maybe embedded support (wrapper) of MS Crypto
API functions. Wish you all the best! Thanks! |
| The Company should keep the flag flying. |
| PB should become .NET |
| Falta considerar en lo q es herencia |
| Powerbuilder is very friendly to use! There
are some serious errors in PB that aren't repaired in EBFs. |
| El tiempo de desarrollo es rapido con PowerBuilder,
el inconveniente es en web: problemas de seguridad, servidor
de aplicaciones entre otros |
| I like powerbuilder, I agreed to purchase the
latest version but do not agree with the new licensing method.
|
| Personalmente pienso que Power Builder es una
de la herramientas mas versatiles para el desarrollo de sistemas,
provee una facilidades para cualquier desarrollador. |
| Lo ·nico que estoy esperando es que sybase libere
un plugin de datawindow para desarrollo web que se pueda desplegar
en un tomcat, whesphere, jboss sin depender de EASERVER...ALGO
PARECIDO A LA DATAWINDOW.NET PARA MICROSOFT. PARA EL CASO DEL
PB11, SOLO SE CONCENTRARON EN MICROSOSFT NO PENSARON EN LOS
OPENSOURCE DE JAVA. |
| Urge un compilador para Linux. Mejorar CrossTab.
Tener reporteador nativo, fácil de usar por los usuarios finales. |
| Please dont' take my comments to reflect Cisco
overall. I used to be in the IT dept, and have moved to Product
Management. I continue to use PB to prototype our applications. |
| 1. GUI interface that one can develop using
PB and its native controls is still very poor, non modern and
actaully not useful. (I know, there is a chance to use PB native
interface...) 2. Automatic pop-up for autocomplete when writing
scripts is very poor and slow (but better than in earlier versions)
|
| We have a number of large software applications
that are written in PowerBuilder and, for obvious reasons, we
have no intention of ever changing them to anything else. I'm
glad to see that Sybase hasn't dropped it's commitment to PB
and I hope they keep it "alive" for many more years to come.
Who knows, with a little effort in the advertising/marketing
process, PB may (someday) gain some "traction" on Visual Basic... |
| The install packages could be better. |
| muy buena herramienta, pero todos los nuevos
desarrollos los estamos haciendo en java |
| Es una excelente herramienta de desarrollo,
creo que le faltaria mas intregracion en aplicaciones internet |
| Hasta la fecha hemos utilizado Power Builder
en ambiente cliente-servidor. Evaluaremos nuestra futura herramienta
de desarrollo en la Web. En ese sentido sería interesante recibir
informaciàn. |
| TENGO PROBLEMAS EN EL TIPO DE DATOS FECHA CUANDO
HAGO UN PROVEDIMEINTO ALMACENADO EN SQLA SERVER 2000 Y LO LLAMO
CON UN DATAWINDOW |
| These stats come from my client where I am working
as a consultant. |
| Nonguno |
| Personalmente pienso que se cometio un error
al integrar tan nativamente el soporte de .NET. Realmente son
recio a utilizar cualquier entorno de desarrollo de Microsoft.
Deberian apostar por hacer PowerBuilder 100% multiplataforma!!!!!
Y no casarlo con Windows! |
| I Enjoy to develop application with Power Builder!
Thank You! |
| Integration with Microsoft products decreases
stability of PB. The more integration, the less power of DataWindow
and the PB itself. Programing becames boring. I'm trying to
use old good pure PB but it's much more difficult than in the
past. My opinion about PB itself is still 10/10, but present
release 8/10 and is falling down. I'm very sad about it. There
is a bright side too. Don't worry Sybase. Use your own technology
and everything will be OK. ;-))) |
| Me parece una herramienta espectacualar, pero
la version orientada a la WEB viene con muchas restricciones
en cuanto a su instalacion y uso, asi mucha desarrolladores
intentaran cambiar a otras herramientas .net, asi seria bueno
tratar de liberar, sabemos que existen software libre o sin
tanta restriccion a la que se pueda cambiar. |
| es una herramienta regular para desarrollo. |
| - The resulting application should look modern
without any 3rd party tools/utilities - Easy www-development/implementation
(N.B. new to this) |
| Actualmente trabajamos para HSBC Mexico, y creo
que unicamente por cuestiones comerciales (no tecnologicas),
HSBC toma la decision de descontinuar el uso de PowerBuilder
para desarrollo de aplicaciones departamentales locales (5 -
30 usuarios), y pide la migracion de aplicaciones existentes
en PB a Visual Studio 2005 de Microsoft, lo cual es una verdadera
lástima...! Hoy ya domino VB.Net y no encuentro nada que haga
VB.Net que PB no pueda hacer, mucho mejor y mas rápido. Insisto...
que pena! |
| vivo enamorado de power builder es lo maximo |
| We are deploying our Client Server PB apps across
Canada using CITRIX. The web group is attempting to use PB 11,
but so far they are not happy with the results. |
| Que arreglen el rich con dw!!!!!, que se pueda
mezclar dw normales con dw rich |
| Todo cuanto sirva para mejorar la herramienta
y puedar terminar con mitos de .NET ya sea ASP.Net o aplicaciones
Windows es muy valiosa, por favor sigan adelante y no permitan
que se muera esta gran Herramienta Edgar Ecuador |
| Very Good |
| Deberia ser mas fácil colocar anuncios en la
ventana frame, hasta el momento esto no es natural |
| Bueno, ya que me gusta trabajar sobre esta plataforma
espero que la tendencia siga creciendo y renovándose. Gracias..
Saludos...!!! |
| debemos migrar para aplicaciones web, con desarrollo
software libre... |
| El easerver es muy costoso y debería ser gratia
como el IIS de Microsoft. |
| Sybase se ha dormido en sus laureles con el
Power Builder, mucho se ha demorado en hacer los cambio orientados
a aplicaciones distribuidas, el EaServer como solucion no era
optimo, recien se esta pudiendo usar el IIS, en la empresa estamos
migrando al Net 2008 |
| Cursos de actualizacion, ademas de mas informacion
de usar la herramienta. Muchos mas foros. |
| Contento con el Lenguaje de Programacion |
| Yo uso PB desde la Versión 3.0 y tristemente,
veo como cada día menos empresas en mi país quieren el producto,
esto debido al elevado costo que tiene el mismo más el costo
de aprendizaje, powerBuilder sigue siendo en mi opninión, un
producto excelente en cuanto al manejo de DATA se refiere, pero
le falta mucho en la parte grafica, la falta de aplicativos
de terceros,etc... Por ejemplo la facilidad con que los productos
infragistics se asocian a Visual Studio .net permitiendo crear
interfaces gráficas mucho más enriquecidas. Lamentablemente
mi percepción es que Sybase está aniquilando el producto con
su pesima estrategia de mercadeo y los que hemos desarrollado
una especialización con powerbuilder ahora nos encontramos en
la PICOTA ya que, no se solicitan nuestros servicios para proyectos
en PB, más a·n se solicitan programadores JAVA para llevar las
aplicaciones hechas en PB a JAVA, OUUUCHHHH. Sds. |
| Desarrollar power builder para linux y sus distribuciones |
| Power Builder es lo maximo |
| Al parecer .NET está ganando mercado ante Power
Builder deberían estudiar ustedes por que puede ser, tal vez
publicidad es una ...... Saludos |
| Deberian mejorar el manejo de los tipos de datos
graficos de una base de datos para poder mostrarlos en los datawindows,
los crosstab deben ser mas flexibles frente a cambios. |
| Senores de PWB el unico inconveniente es al
utilizarlo con windows vista favor si existe alguna actualizacion
URGENTE para powerbuilder v10 favor notificarme a la direccion
system@everfit.net, ya q' todos los equipos nuevos estan llegando
con WVista y se necesita una actualizacion del mismo con URGENCIA.
Favor relacionarse con Microsoft. |
| * que sea orientado mas a web. talvez algun
modulo. * que pueda trabajar en cualquier sistema operativo. |
| No dejaría nunca a PowerBuilder |
| Proporcionar mayor informaciàn via web sobre
lo ·ltimo de power builder, como manuales, etc..Como haria para
integrar usuarios desarrolladores en Power Builder. Esperamos
su respuesta. Atte. Jose Luis Ortega Rodriguez |
| Falta ayuda con los errores comunes, conexiones
con base de datos, reportes a hojas de calculo |
| Power Builder es una excelente herramienta para
desarrollo. Y en cada nueva versiàn nos ofrece una fabulosa
gama de funciones que hacen más amigable nuestro trabajo como
desarrolladores. |
| Mejorar las opciones graficas. |
| ESPERO QUE SE MAS FACIL EL DESARROLO WEB EN
PB |
| DATAWINDOW PARA JAVA |
| A pesar de ser una excelente herramientas, no
se difunde sus beneficios en .Net |
| con mucha pena debo decir que es una plataforma
que dejada de lado....talvez por la falta de marketing, aun
habiendo demostrado ser muy buena plataforma en muchos aspectos. |
| El PowerBuilder 11, deberia tener alguna opcion
de licenciamiento que sea masivo y llegue a mas desarrolladores.
Conosco profesionales desarrolladores en PB, muy buenos, que
estan dejando o planeando en cambiar de herramienta de desarrollo
en las empresas donde laboran, porque licenciarce al 100% actualmente
a las empresas les resulta caro. Y esta situacion en realidad
me apena mucho. No trato de promover la pirateria ni mucho menos,
si no que SYBASE deberia diseñar un medio de licenciamiento
que sean validos por regiones por ejemplo, haciendo que la herramienta
penetre aun mas el mercado. |
| Es Una herramienta muy poderosa, deberia tener
en cuenta que si trabajo con una version superior y quiero guardar
mi aplicacion me de la opcion de seleccionar compatible con
una version anterior. X ejemplo: si trabajo con V.11 al guardar
sea compatible con v10.5 |
| Podrian hacer un compilado de las funciones
mas importantes, ya que los manuales son muy extensos y un poco
complicados. La ayuda que viene con el software deberia ser
mas didactica en el sentido deberia tener mas ejemplos o al
menor tener unos cd de mas ejemplos practicos. Los controles
deberias contar con asistentes tipo DW, gracias |
| Accelerate! |
| A mi punto de vista PowerBuilder esta quedandose
muy de lado con respecto a .Net y Java, etc, cosa que como persona
que siempre usà productos Sybase me preocupa mucho... es por
eso que decidí hacer un cambio en mi vida profesional hacia
la Consultoría SAP que tiene mucho futuro por delante, es lamentable
pues Sybase me parece muy bien, pero el mercado es el que manda.
Deberían hacer algo para revertir esta situaciàn. Hablo básicamente
del Mercado Peruano (soy peruano trabajé allí por 8 años) y
el Mercado Español (Trabajé con Power Builder unos meses en
Barcelona y las empresas tienden a migrar |
| Como respondí en la pregunta anterior, es muy
bueno el lenguaje, es rápido para generar ventanas y poder construir
una aplicación en poco tiempo. Pero si he tenido problemas cuando
trabajo con informix, pues no puedo generar un "DW" a partir
de un procedimiento almacenado, por lo tanto estoy un poco limitada
para utilizar esa opción como yo quisiera, y no he descubierto
cual es la razón, me gustaría si alguien pudiera ayudarme en
ese sentido. |
| El Power Builder es solvente y robusto, rápido
en el desarrollo de aplicaciones basadas especialmente con bases
de datos, espero mejore su plataforma para el desarrollo de
aplicaciones más analíticas |
| Power Builder es una exelente y rapida herramienta
de desarrollo. El Datawindow es una invencion magistral. tal
vez .NET sea bueno e intente igualar la funcionalidad de PB,
pero esta es invatible para el manejo de datos... larga vida
a PB |
| Necesitamos capacitacion on line, en mi caso
yo estoy fuera de la capital y es dificil asistir a entrenamientos
medianos o largos fuera de esta provincia. |
| WebDW support for cross browser syntax (Mozilla)
will be great help |
| I still am amazed by the datawindow capabilities
after 10 years of developing with it. Long life to powerbuilder
and the datawindow. Guy |
| Es un excelente software, solo que falta conocerlo
muy bien para sacarle la efectividad. Muchas Gracias por su
atención prestada |
| por favor mejoren los graficos que es un punto
muy debil y dar manuales especificos de como y donde deben de
ubicarse los codigos para usar correctamente los pfc's |
| Producto Costoso, vamos a llevar todas nuestras
aplicaciones PB a JAVA y .NET MEDITEN lo que están haciendo
|
| no existen manuales en español o castellano,
tampoco existe un buen blog o foro para el desarrollo o aprendizaje
de power builder, bueno al menos no lo conosco ? |
| PowerBuilder como herramienta es muy buena,
y sobre todo con el concepto de tecnología abierta se va integrando
y trabajando en conjunto con las herramientas existentes en
el mercado, dándote el dinamismo y flexibilidad que hoy en día
las empresas necesitan en sus aplicativos. |
| Not sure how much Sybase Inc. will listen to
this.. but please put effort in the marketing of Powerbuilder
especially outside USA. Do something fast to attract more usage
of PB, probably in the Education and Government sector. If PB
do well.. I will definitely gain from it. Popularity wise and
money wise. Otherwise... bye bye PB, my love!! |
| a).- Al renombrar un campo de una tabla, toda
la aplicacion deberia renombrar el campo o variables relacionadas.
b).-que incluyera un presentador de reportes (Datawindows) que
permita agregar Datawindows a la base de datos(blob), leelos,
cargarlos, presentar datos, que tenga menu para exportacion
en diferentes formatos, y un controlador de versiones de los
reportes. c).- Diagramacion integracion y relacional. |
| 1. Your question 12 has a spelling error: Developer
has one "p", not two. 2. One complaint I have with PB 9 is a
GDI resources leak - happens consistently when Picture Button
controls are used. Leaks about 3 resources with every Picture
Button instantiated. Since I use a lot of them, for presentation
of ICON selection, it very rapidly runs out and crashes (when
the GDI reosurce count hits about 6000). (Win 2K Pro development
environment) 3. Another concern is a lack of low level utility
functions, (bit level). For example, there is no ability to
do an XOR function, that I am aware of, except by direct manipulation
of exponents of 2. I have mentioned this on previous surveys.
4. It appears to me that the provision now for some kind of
Install Builder is worse than it was back in version 5.0! I
would like to see a PB native App packager or install program,
such that third party installers are not necessary. 5. Help
File builder. It would be nice if PB could supply its own Help
File compiler, either for Windows or for HTML or both. 6. Look
and feel options are not really keeping up with the times, unless
these have been improved in version 10 and 11, and it is me
who is not keeping up with the times. 7. Rich Text Format control:
has had a bug regarding margins control since verison 5 and
it has never been fixed. (Sybase blames MS and MS says its not
their problem.) In any case the margin settings cannot be managed
by code, and they fail to save correctly at run time when set
by the user. 8. A set of "Sybase approved" or supported, third
party OCX/ActiveX controls would be extremely helpful. How about
opening a website in which third party developers can register
their products and provide support for PB developer wishing
to user their controls. There might also be a relatively small
set of core controls that PB could recommend or endorse for
doing some important basic extensions of functionality such
as: a) a Word Processing control b) a Spreadsheet control (I
am using one called Formula One that is no longer available,
but I have made substantial application feature developments
with this control, integrating it with PB datawindows and retrieval
and update functionality. ) c) an eMail control, for quick and
easy eMail enabling of a PB app d) an HTML editor control, giving
the user the ability to compose simple HTML material such as
Help Files, etc. ( I have purchased such a control and am finding
it helpful) e) a MAP control f) a drawing/charting control g)
a Spell checking control h) a Bar Code reader/writer control
The whole point of setting up such a website would be to encourage
OCX/Active developers to see the PowerBuilder community as a
good place to seek new customers. Bill Chestnut Codesmith Inc
Calgary Alberta billchestnut@canada.com |
| Me parece muy Interesante pero seria mejor aun
si se integra con otros lenguajes de programacion y tambien
para Unix... |
| Good luck... |
| bueno soy un programador de 3 años ya probe
primero con visual basic, pero cuando conoci PB 9.0, me hizo
un poco mas entendible la programacion orientda a objetos..
cabe señalar que a este software lo voy debiendo mucho mucho
y estoy muy agradecido... les pido que en cada actualizacion
lo hagan un poco menos vulnerable a los errores de compilacion
y evite cerrar el diseño de la aplicacion asi drepente. muy
agradecido de haber participado |
| I hope that more powerbuilder issued a number
of technical books (compared professional), in China and more
advertising and publicity, China's big market and many users;
I will always support powerbuilder. |
| For window development: 9 out of 10 For Web
Development: 2 out of 10 |
| More improve on processing speed |
| I wish the powerbuilder to have the following
features to be included: a) Enviornment Identification & Supporting
functions b) Using IIS as additional web server c) Support for
Windows messaging services |
| We are waiting Linux-ready Powerbuilder. Nowadays
Linux's market keep growing and we have to be ready to build
the application using Powerbuilder for Linux. The datawindow/datastore
is Platinum-key of Powerbuilder on developing database connected
application. |
| I love to work in powerbuilder |
| In powerbuilder latest version should concentrated
on distrubuted powerbuilder. |
| Es una lastima que Banamex, solo ocupe PowerBuilder
en el mantenimiento de las aplicaciones ya existentes y no la
contemple para los desarrollos nuevo, se esta trabajando con
java y dot.net y como base de Datos ORACLE, en lo personal como
consultor no veo el sentido de estos cambios, ya que la suite
de desarrollo de Oracle para mi es una soluci?n completa. |
| Excelente como reporteador. Se pueda mostrar
la infromación de multiples formas , gracias a sus datawindows.
LAs deficiencias...que en ocasiones se corrompen los objetos,
al extremo que ni regenerandolos funcionan. |
| I need to migrate my existing apps to Web seemlessly |
| Powerbuilder is a very excellent tool. I feel
its poor only from the GUI side.. Any future changes to make
the PB applications have more rich GUI look and feel is what
i am expecting.. |
| Sybase has to concentrate on selling the PB,
Also make the customers to use PB for new developments |
| will be able to give our feed back once the
pb version is upgraded to 11.x |
| Poor marketing of SYBASE, because that we hardly
any development project. And company are scraping PB projects
going for DOT net etc. My view SYBASE sholud to something so
that it can compete with MICROSOFT tools or other tool. It is
happening becuase in industry people are not aware of what PB
can do? |
| Great tool. Need portability to linux and more
people will use it in africa. |
| Creemos por experiencia propia que, PowerBuilder
es una herramienta excepcional, para nosotros la mejor hasta
el momento, ya que cubre todas nuestras espectativas.Dado un
proyecto nuevo que tenemos, nos gustaria que las versiones posteriores
de PowerBuilder tengan un soporte mas avanzado y facil de utilizar
en cuestion de mejoras de los objetos gráficos windows y por
que no tambien Linux, implementando la utilizacion de objetos
multimedia y de animaciones de ventanas por ejemplo pudiendo
configurar dicha opcion desde la barra de herramientas o propiedades
por ejemplo.Estaremos esperando noticias nuevas y desde aqui
un saludo cordial. |
| Me parece que la herramienta no se ha quedado
atras, pero creo que deberian difundir un poco más el proceso
de migración de aplciaciones de escritorio a web utilizando
Power Builder, de igual manera difundir el Pocket sería de gran
utilidad o por lo meno contar con herramientas free para difundirlo
y dar lo a conocer. |
| would like more frequent news about powerbuilder
along with magazines and newsletters. |
| para mi los DW son los nejores objectos y crosstab
hace lo que puede ps me gustaria que lo mejoraran mas. |
| Tener como retroalimentacion más seguida, sobre
sus nuevos avances, y probabilidades de interactuar con los
diferentes sistemas operativos, VMS. LINUX. UNIX, ORACLE, LINUX,
PL/SQL, SHELL DE UNIX. Procedimientos que se ejecuten en Unix,
disparados por el ambiente Powe Builder, Gracias. |
| He venido utilizando power builder muchos años,
y es unos de los lenguajes mas rapidos para desarrollar, pero
me gustaria que se puediera programar en capaz asi como .net. |
| Es una lenguaje regular |
| Me gustaría la integración de Power Builder
con herramientas Web y con soporte a lenguajes de codigo libre |
| Powerbuilder is proves best in every field but
all new projects afraid to take PB as the tool since they think
its old and less resources available for this. In such condition
what will the future of Powerbuilder and Powerbuilder related
jobs ? |
| Best RAD Tool in market!!1 |
| muy importante q se haga este tipo de consultas |
| I hope you can standardize most of the common
utility objects in PFC and and integrate in in Powerbuilder.
Just like in .Net or Java, for example, a String have many nice
functions already builtin the String class without having to
use other classes, in PB you'd have a messy n_cst_string which
you have to declare that takes up another line of code and more
characters when calling the function. Ex: in PB, n_cst_string
ln_str ln_str.of_decomposetoarray("Some String", ",", ...) in
Java/.Net "Some String".split(","...); I guess a more OOP way.
to save some typing and a more cleaner code. |
| We'll wait improvement converting pb to java |
| Existing application should be made to run directly
in portal/web. this will make PB more successful. There should
be change only in compilation or setting. |
| Es la mejor herramienta del mercado, rapida
, sin escritura de mucho codigo, se requiere mas promocion de
la herramienta en las universidades, colegios para que amplie
el numero de programadores en el mundo |
| we don't use PB11 because of licening model.
Condition compile (ifdef... like C++) is really needed. Multilingual
support is realy needed (datawindow, composite fields in datawindows). |
| Sencillamente una herramienta genial |
| We are interesting in acquire pb 11 to develope
application distribuited, Can i talk with somebody in mexico
to take a decision wich tool acquire. my cel phone (871) 2-11-72-88 |
| PB Rocks! |
| Sinceramente, no es bueno depender del .NET
en aplicaciones web, ya que Java tiene mucho mejor soporte y
el mismo tiempo que va trabajando, que se de mayor enfasis en
aplicaciones web con Java |
| SI MEJORARA LA DOCUMENTACION DE AYUDA, SERIA
UN GRAN LOGRO, AUN CONSERVA LA ANTIQUISISMA PRESENTACIËN Y NO
ES MUY DIDACTICA |
| Although the product is very good, it lacks
support in terms of marketing and promotions. I think giving
training to upcoming developers, student community and special
marketing schemes for new application areas could help improve
the product positioning in the long run. |
| I think powerbuilder should can generate to
php syntax too and don't just support .NET cause .NET platform
is too slow |
| presenta entornos muy flexibles |
| Datawindow is awesome. GUI components is poor
and ugly. Pcode is slow. |
| PowerBuilder is a great RAD tool for client/server
environment. Now PB should shift its focus to web applications
and web 2.0 |
| 1. The IDE is unduly confining. I don't think
it actually serves a purpose, and it prevents using so many
standard tools (like, for instance, subversion, and all the
other tools that process text). 2. The DW was great in 1995,
but it's fallen way behind. It still does not have decent debugging
or compile-time checking! |
| A very productive tool to develop database based
applications! |
| Me gustaria conocer sitios donde se pueda realizar
consultas para las nuevas versiones de PB. Pues son pocos los
lugares para cuando deseo averiguar la solucion de algun problema. |
| Gracias por la encuesta |
| Seria excelente que el producto PowerBuilder
se integrara a niveles de pequeños grupos de desarrolladores
y tambien en escuelas, universidades, etc. Miro que a nivel
de marketing aun estan a años luz de otros productos inferiores.
Me encanta PowerBuilder! |
| wish powerbuilder is a unbeatable, indispensable
tool for development. |
| wish powerbuilder is a unbeatable, indispensable
tool for development. |
| Please improve the marketing & adveriesment
of PowerBuilder. Then it cann be much popular. |
| Es la mejora herramienta que he usado para desarrollo
de software |
| Good Software |
| 1. recomendaria que en PB se incluya un buscador
de objetos POR NOMBRE, ya que cuandola aplicacion contiene demasiadas
librerias y objetos es tedioso tener que recordar en que libreria
se encuentra guardado un determinado objeto. 2. Recomiendo que
cuando sea guardado un objeto el PB no lo permita, si en la
aplicacion ya existiera otro objeto con el mismo nombre, debido
a que esto genera una ambiguedad al compilador del PB |
| PB is a good tool but support is not upto mark. |
| IDE Stability and Performance is our biggest
negative. Needing to use PowerGen to build without crashing
is also negative. |
| En la empresa donde trabajo se realizo la compra
de un sistema Dabez para manejo de produccion y me interesa
mucho conocer sobre el desarrollo sobre Power Builder.. Ya que
pienso que es una muy buena plataforma de desarrollo |
| Hi, I believe PB is a good product, is to costly
for new developer to start up with PB. Why not try like Oracle,
give full support to new developer to explore their biz idea
via PB. TQ |
| no comments |
| Tengo q aceptarlo PB es lo Mejor para desarrollo
en BD |
| informacion minima en la web (para las personas
que se inician), deberian brindar un boletin de novedades e
inforamcion de las ultimas versiones y mas enfasis en las ventajas
de la ultima version 11.2. Pero power builder tiene para rato. |
| Que presenten su ayuda en español |
| Keep on improving the best Rad ever. |
| As a PB developer for almost 7 year, I can't
see any future on PB. I dont see any new deveolpment project
happening. There is only maintanance/support project are happening
currently. I really love to work on a new PB development project. |
| Several times our company has declared "no new
applications will be built using PB" and 5-years later we are
still building new applications where PB is used to create the
interface. Why? We've found nothing else with the richness and
integration power of PB. We are currently looking at migrating
from PB 8.0.3 to PB 10.5. I manage a development team of 3 PB
developers and we have projects planned for the next 3 years
running. |
| Developers generally support PB and have a wealth
of PB knowledge but management views PB development as increasingly
risky. Our long range strategy will be toward C# and .Net. Sad
to say that new projects will not be using PB although after
15 years of PB development we will continue to have many years
of PB maintenance. |
| Las aplicaciones son muy seguras y mucho mas
estables |
| Very useful Client/Server Tool, But lacks latest
features avalible in C#/Java for internet and multi tier applications. |
| Better marketing of the product and keeping
the developer community involved by organizing more seminars,
code camps of the latest of powerbuilder coming out. |
| PowerBuilder promotion and exposure in Australia
is poor. In the 1990's there was a thriving PB community. Now
it is hard to get PB developers and most PB applications are
viewed by large companies as legacy applications. |
| Powerbuilder is still the fastest way to make
non web applications. |
| no sybase education in india |
| More examples of new features usage are needed |
| Se puede generar con PB11 un website con toda
la apariencia web en las aplicaciones como si lo hicieramos
con Dreamwever (apariencia web, botones, barra de botones, weblinks,
fondos, animacion, etc, algo como www.terra.es) |
| Improve GUI design/properties. Improve memory
handling for Application/DW. |
| Powerbuilder una excelente herramienta de desarrollo |
| Power builder is very powerfull tools |
| PB beats any other language and any other IDE
hands down. It is unfortunate that Sybase cannot get that word
out to the developer community very well. It is unfortunate
that Microsoft's marketing dollars is much bigger - that is
the ONLY reason why visual studio outsells PB. |
| Though the product is good and easy to develop
enterprise applications. |
| if I could deploy powerbuilder applications
to web, I think powerbuilder is the best development tool |
| You are sending this survey around the world,
and yet in Q6 you misspelt "Sybase ASE" (as well as "developer"
in Q12)! What does this say about your quality control? or whether
you give a dam about Sybase/PB. |
| Is it possible to generate .net as well as j2ee
deployable components using the same datawindow. |
| Estoy utilizando recientemente y me parece muy
interesante!! |
| The .Net integration fails to meet expectations
when I analyze it on a 1:1 base. Especially after speaking directly
to PB representative in Israek |
| The different versions will be well compatible
with each other. |
| The different versions will be well compatible
with each other. |
| Me encanta PB, pero necesitamos un control grafico,
para desarrollar tareas de ingenieria. Gracias, |
| power builder esta para llorar. |
| trabajo desde la version 4 es excelente esero
siga adelante y no desaparezca y se ataque la integracion con
punto net y se de capacitacion que no existe mucho |
| Esta herramienta es una de las mejores del mercado,
y espero que en las nuevas versiones vengan más propiedades
en el linea web. |
| I see a real need for earlier adoption of future
MS technology like WPF for clients, Workflow Foundations for
server-deployed NVOs. I also really want easier way to import
a XML Schema file as a new XML template inside a DW object. |
| I introduced the powerbuilder to Riyad Bank
and now I'm moved to another bank and I will try to impose on |
| Very nice tool to business applications but
Sybase killed it by not marketing this product. Developing applications
with this tool is so quick compared to other tools like .NET
or Java. But nobody wants to invest in PB as everyone thinks/believes
that this tool is in its final stretch. I still do not understand
how such a wonderful product is coming to an end like this. |
| We love Powerbuilder. We're very sorry to see
Sybase putting so much effort into .NET and nothing into Linux.
We believe that the Windows platform is dead and Linux is the
future. Native Linux support is key to our continued use of
Powerbuilder. |
| PB is a robust product for developing client/server
apps for use in a real-time production environment. Would like
to be able to easily convert to a newer technology at some point
as the market moves away from PB it is getting harder to find
qualified developers. |
| Great Client / Server tool which there is no
better. If you are not a .net shop then moving to the web with
PowerBuilder Technology is very challenging if not practical. |
| Como una nota adicional siento que a PowerBuilder
le falta la sentencia FOR...EACH para manejar ciclos entre las
colecciones de un objeto (mas que nada Automatizacion de objetos
COM), cosa que no se puede hacer con el FOR...NEXT ya que solo
es a base de un indice. Otra nota adicional es que con la introduccion
de PB 10.5 Sybase logro incrementear enormemente el diseño de
interfaces de aplicaciones de usuario que se hace con esta herramienta,
sin embargo pienso que le hace falta mejorar solo un poco mas
ya que el nuevo estandar visual de aplicaciones como por ejemplo
Office 2007 cada vez mas impresionantes lo hacen quedar atras
nuevamente. |
| Es una buena herramienta y espero siga mejorando
mucho mas. |
| En el área web los cambios han sido demasiado
drasticos de version a versión obligandonos a migrar y en ciertos
casos a casi rehacer varios sitemas (Dynamo,HTML,JSPs.../ EASERVER)
En el área cliente servidor se siente cierto abandono, ya que
las mejoras no son demasiadas y no se actuliza la parte visual
de presentación al usuario. |
| I'm the lone holdout for PB in my shop. Everybody
else wants to do .NET. I still get things done faster/better
with PB but the management believes the product and Sybase are
dead because there's no talent pool for the product. |
| NECESITAMOS INFORMACION SOBRE SOPORTE POWERBUILDER
Y SYBASE ACTUALMENTE EN MI TRABAJO SOLO HACEN CONTACTOS CON
PERSONAL DE UNIPLEX EN QUITO, TAMBIEN ME INTERESA EL SOFTWARE
SYBASE IQ PERO SI HAY OTRAS OPCIONES PARA SOPORTE Y CAPACITACION
VIA WEB O COMO SEA SERIA DE MUCHA UTILIDAD PARA MI Y PARA MIS
COMPAÐEROS. PERSONALMENTE ME INTERESA PARTICIPAR EN EL TECHWAVE
DEL PROXIMO AÐO 2009 YA QUE EN ESTE AÐO HE ESTADO DESARROLLANDO
APLICACIONES POWER BUILDER PARA MI TRABAJO EN EL INEC (INSTITUTO
NACIONAL DE ESTADISTICA Y CENSOS DEL ECUADOR) ME GUSTAR?A VIAJAR
AL TECHWAVE 2009 YA QUE TENGO VISA TURISTA A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
|
| mas documentacion en castellano |
| poco desarrolladores en esta plataforma, lo
cual es una deventaja para una empresa recurrir a esta tecnología,
por otra parte los gerentes de proyectos no conocen bien el
producto ni sus potencialidades |
| I miss being able to easily paste instance variables
and parameters from the dropdowns. I wish there were a common
ancestor for datawindows and datastores (or if PB supported
interfaces, that would work too). I wish the search results
were a bit more permanent, rather than disappearing whenever
I file a change. |
| Es una herramienta muy importante en la aplicacion
de proyectos informaticos, asi mismo hasta que punto es muy
seguro para trabajar con datos de entidades financieras, si
su bakcup es muy confiable, gracias Luis Huertas- Movil:00-51-73-969093609
Piura PERU |
| Me gustaría saber donde encontrar manuales de
Power Builder en Español y si hay Certificaciones en power Builder |
| Power Builder is a lagacy system that is prone
to developer error during open system cultural demands. |
| Hola soy estudiante Universitario y bueno me
interesa mucho el uso del Power Builder, pero me agradaria que
lo que se programa a nivel de aplicacion lo pueda migrar a web,
es decir para usar dichas apliaciones en web de igual manera
que se utiliza cuando uno no esta en el internet...saludos y
gracias por mejorar cada dia esta herramienta..saludos desde
Madre de Dios-Per· |
| I am learning C# and .net because all of the
jobs I see for PowerBuilder people are to port those applications
to .net. Sorry, but not many of the companies I deal with as
a consultant are planning to go forward with PowerBuilder. |
| Unfortunately it is not possible to install
PB 11 on two workstations: office and home. This is the reason
that we plan to select another product. |
| Love the product, hate the company. They don't
market well, they're too slow, and they're too far behind. |
| Including pictures in a PB application should
be as easy as attaching attaching a document. I do not know
if that has been fixed in later versions. |
| Deberia darsele mas difusión a aplicaciones
.Net, sobre todo la parte de DataWindow .NET. Pues en las empresas
consideran dejarlo porque no es para web y aun mantienen versiones
7 y 8. |
| Quisiera, que por intermedio de mi correo, me
pudieran mantener actualizado en todo lo nuevo de power builder,
quisiera conocer mas de power builder 10 y 11, a travez de manuales,
cursos, documentos, soy Colombiano especialmente del Departamento
del Chocó, PowerBuilder es lo mejor que me ha podido suceder,
la considero como la herramienta mas poderosa para desarrollar
aplicaciones de 4 generacion, hablando de generaciones que me
pueden decir de la nueva generacion que se nos avecina como
es la POA (Programación Orientada en Aspecto). |
| Bonjour, Actuellement j'ai commencé faire des
recherches par rapport à la nouvelle version de PoweBuilder
11.x et EAServer. Actuellement je travaille avec PowerBuilder
8.0.3 et Oracle 9i (cÆest un système client/serveur). JÆaimerais
savoir quelle version de PowerBuilder ce sera la meilleure pour
moi. De plus jÆaimerais conna¯tre un peu plus par rapport au
EAServer, comme je peux transformer mon système et sÆil est
vraiment difficile de faire une migration de mes librairies
PBL? Merci beaucoup et bonne journée, Andy Del Risco M. Analyste
Programmeur |
| Esas una excelente herramienta de desarrollo
desde que empece con PowerBuilder5 las mejoras han sido muy
buenas, desearia de que haya mas informacion en Español de PowerBuilder
para desarrollar en Web. Por lo de mas, como dije anteriormente
es una excelente herramienta. |
| La versión 6.5 es muy cerrada en el sentido
que no se pueden comprar componentes ya construidos por terceros.
Arquitectura de software muy cerrada |
| While writing a script or code in PowerBuilder
please provide a complete online syntax help for reduce a time
for typing script. |
| Excelente herramienta de desarrollo, espero
mejor tratamiento de informaci?n con sql server 2000 y 2005. |
| PowerBuilder is a very good software |
| Why Sybase is not marketing this wonderfull
product. Sybase should be thinking about bundling PB desktop
free of charge with their other products. Also PB and EAserver
should be bundled with ASE. |
| Ther're lots of features that developers are
waiting for years, all they have to do is check ISUG requests.
after PB12 is delivered I'd personally prefer restoring Linux
as a deployment platform. |
| powerbuilder is very usefull and fast development
tool and very easy to use this tool. but we did not use with
.net |
| Seamless integration with internet tools like
emailing should be improved. graphical interface its also something
that end users care about on deployed applications. |
| Unfortunately my "superiors" have deemed PowerBuilder
a dead language and we are only allowed to maintain existing
applications. (We have about 40). I on the other hand believe
there is nothing better then PowerBuilder for RAD. |
| I have been using PowerBuilder since release
3 to develop client server applications. I am a Consultant/Developer
and use PowerBuilder in developing and maintaining applications
for many companies around the USA. I do not see a reason to
change. |
| It is the perception within this organisation
that Powerbuilder will continue to lag behind current developments
in .NET and that it is a dead end, career wise. |
| It looks strange for me that PowerBuilder DataWindow
doesn't have Title band symmetric to Summary one that should
appeared only in the very beginning of the report and could
contain report's resume, places fo signatures, etc. Then, I
would inlcude GhostScript and Acrobat Reader installation into
PowerBuilder deployment because saving as PDF is the only option
to keep all the formating of complicate DataWindows (PSR is
pretty out of date solution, and PSR Viewer isn't deployed with
PB VM, either). |
| It Wud be better if web application can be formed
with the help of power builder alone and not with the help of
.net framework. |
| Need to improve the marketing. |
| soy nuevo en el tema, pero si es q solo funciona
bajo IIS no lo voy a usar mucho. |
| hope powerbuilder become the best develoment
tool |
| muy buenos en realidad espero pueda mejorar
mas en la interfaz grafica de usuario |
| Sorry I don't use PB! I just want to know where
it is headed |
| one of the best Application development tools,
and very powerful and sturdy. |
| Powerbuilder is exponentially better than anything
else I've used. It's a shame it's losing popularity. |
| Me gustaría calificarles a 10, me falta aplicar
bastante de la programación, lo que se me ha servido mucho para
la programación base |
| Sybase has to market one of the most productive
development environemts avaialble or it will die! |
| Powerbuilder is going toward .Net but we need
to see our generated code in .Net languages, so that we can
modify the code in .Net environment, if needed. |
| We seem to have moved on and left PB behind,
a pity. |
| We started with PB in 1993 and have used this
product since that time. We are very satisfied and have no plan
for any change of this platform. |
| Hardly anyone in the Netherlands is using PB.
We're dropping it because there are no developers available. |
| pb 12.5 changed where pbodb.ini file is lying
and didn't mention afaik it in documentation/changelog. |
| We really like PB and cannot understand why
it has become so unpopular |
| As a customer of Powerbuilder since version
1, I've always been a proponent of PB. Unfortunately with the
current marketplace for development, all of our major work will
either be around SAP, Salesforce.com, or .NET. The .NET folks
here are not interested in the latest from PB. |
| They used to give access to the solved cases
database without a support contract. I wish they did that again. |
| The object model is still messy, it was a problem
from the very beginning. There is no global object tree with
a common root. The fact, that DataWindow and DataStore are different
objects is disappointing. |
| Powerbuilder is what it is. It's a client-server
tool and that's where sybase has to position it. It has absolutely
no business trying to generate web applications and there are
way too many questions surrounding the current .Net generation
as winforms. If you want to see all the problems surrounding
the current PB .Net strategy just visit the PB futures newsgroups.
|
| Good application development tool, that is not
'sexy' any more. It is like COBOL was in the early 1990's, a
work horse that no one wants to used |
| PB is still a great tool, but the rate of change
and also the amount of third party support are much weaker than
what we see in the Microsoft development tools space. |
| The best Windows development tool for data intensive
oriented business applications! |
| The best Windows development tool for data intensive
oriented business applications! |
| Wish the company still used it but it is being
phased out. |
| You should include MYSQL in your database list
on question #6 |
| Biggest problem with PowerBuilder: Desktop and
Professional do not include the .NET stuff. This is unbelievable.
I use Desktop because I don't need any of the Enterprise features
as they aren't applicable for small apps. With 11.x however,
if I want to do anything .NET related, I need to shell out $3K
instead of $300. It will never happen. I am now using Visual
Studio Express for free and once proficient, may consider moving
all my apps over to a MS product, since Sybase is being greedy.
Take out things like version control, PBL access over a network
(so PBLs can't be shared easily), big server DBs like Oracle
(leave the cheap ones on the web like Access/SQL Server Express).
Take out anything aimed at multi-developer, big company applications.
Sorry, .NET doesn't come under that. By not including the .NET
capabilities in all editions of PowerBuilder, Sybase is slowly
killing itself. |
| PowerBuilder still can't be beaten for rapid
application development of database oriented applications. Even
after all these years, the datawindow still rules! |
| PowerBuilder is a very good development tool,
but we have decided to move to .NET development because of the
lack of expertise from outside the company. New developper or
consultent don't have the PB expertise anymore ... |
| v9 makes us angry when "generating" GPFs without
any cause. We hope for a better v11-version. Why is the datawindow-printing
so poor? Why is there no visual control to display html-pages
inside usercontrols/windows? New applications are .Net-based
web-applications. |
| You are moving in the right direction. Keep
it going lads. |
| They have spent a lot of time making some very
wonderful improvements that we are using. I hope that they also
spend some time on the fundamentals of the programming environment
and windows controls. Many of the extended functions of the
pfc should become options of the controls. Like column-top-click-to-sort.
How about drop-down-list-box control with a dw as its source
placeable directly on a window. IÆd also like to get autofill
and lookup on drop-down-list-boxes. Allow the programmer to
set the relations between multiple dwÆs on a single form so
that keys and updates propagate and save properly. They should
take the strong end-user experience form MS access and allow
us to provide it thru this strong programming environment. |
| I am a Surgeon - no formal training in IT. But
still have managed to make world class applications -even written
articles in PBDJ. All due to the ease of learning and working
with Powerbuilder. Never needed to learn anything else - the
reasons why don't use stored procedures. |
| address the performance issue and ensuring that
PFC-based applications will run smoothly in both webform and
winform |
| It's really excellent tool. But very few peowple
knew about Powerbuilder |
| All above questions shows only positive side
of the product but the fact is Now a days Powerbuilder application
are used for reengineering to other technology like vb.net.
Comany's don't want to stick with powerbuilder even though we
popose them to migrate in PB's higher ver like 11. If you ask
me like How many PB application migrated in other technology
my answer is : 5 |
| NO PB books are available in the market. No
training institutes are availabe for new learners and to learn
PB .NET |
| Nice tool for development. |
| Powerbuilder is still the only real RAD tool
for classic windows applications working with any RDBMS. |
| A lot of development emphasis seems to be on
things we are not interested in at all: we don't care about
.NET, transaction servers or whatnot; we want a good client
server tool. We do our web development with the best web development
tools available, we have a 4 terabyte database that handles
transaction control, web services integration, security and
business logic just fine. We would very much like to see more
effort applied to improving the usability of PB as a pure CS
tool. The IDE still crashes daily, implementations of common
objects are still incomplete (menu items: why can't we modify
the color?; treeview datawindows: why can we not modify or remove
the plus-signs on a group, how dificult can it be to have a
"merged" header above two or more regular headers, why can we
use relative references in a datawindow (type column_name[-2])
but not absolute references, ...) Why did it take this long
improve the graphs? And why was this silly copy protection system
introduced? Does Sybase really think they are losing revenue
because of massive PB copying? Anyone who is serious about development
will make sure to have the right licenses - the licensing server
just makes using pb even more of a hassle for serious users
- I am blocking migration beyond 10.5 because of this reason.
Eventually, we will have to move up, but that will certainly
trigger a re-evaluation of our development environment. |
| Un look plus "state of the art" des applications,
avec l'utilisation de perspectives, comme l'environnement de
dev lui-meme serait des plus benefique pour la perenite de PB |
| Un IDE à la "Eclipse" serait le bienvenu
! |
| Best IDE & RAD tool ever! |
| PB served its purpose for us well. Legacy apps
will be around for a while. As a developer, I gave PB a 3 simply
because I enjoy working in the .NET environment (framework +
IDE) |
| Its a good development tool |
| Me gustaria que la ayuda mejore, aun se a quedado
en la epoca de la prehistoria, |
| La tendencia en nuestro entorno de trabajo es
desarrollar para ambiente web y me gustaría conocer las ventajas
y desventajas entre Visual Studio .NET Vs. PowerBuilder porque
siento que antes de voltear a ver otros productos debemos de
terminar de conocer lo que PowerBuilder nos ofrece como soporte
de desarrollo para el ambiente web. Gracias. |
| on Generating a report Clients feel that there
is some restiction in adding more fields to the report. This
needs more flexibility . More marketting is required for PB.
which is a really good software where I am using nearly for
past 5 years. |
| Es un IDE facil de aprender y se crean aplicaciones
de forma muy rapida, se queda un poco corto en la parte visual,
deberian integrarse mejor con componentes como: Component One,
Infragistics, etc. |
| Me gusta mucho programar con Power Builder pero
quisiera mayores opciones como las que se describen en el numeral
11. |
| Creo que se podría mejorar la interface gráfica
asi como la adicion de nuevos controles graficos que permitan
al desarrollador solamente reutilizarlos, como los que tienen
.NET. Asi mismo una mayor integración en lo que es desarrollo
en WEB, es decir hacer aplicaciones rapidamente y implementar
mucho código, tal vez tener un generados de código. Buenon son
ciertas apreciaciones en las que podría aportar. Saludos cordiales. |
| Se deberia de hacer mas facil su utilización |
| Las versiones mas recientes, versiónes 10,11
son muchos mas estables que las versiones anteriores. |
| es inestable la PB10 se cuelga frecuentemente.
sin embargo es buena erramienta de desarrollo |
| VENGO usando power Builder desde la version
4 hace 12 años, es una herramienta muy fuerte que permite generar
sistemas de informacion de todo tipo, felicitaciones |
| Se requiere mejoras para el soporte para aplicaciones
web |
| Me parece excelente Power Builder |
| Creo que sería de gran utilidad que la herramienta
permita desarrollos para multiplataformas (windows, linix, etc).
Adicionalmente, creo que debe existir una buena prueba del producto
y que los representantes en cada país tengan el conocimiento
técnico adecuado sobre la herramienta. Esto por cuanto en nuestro
caso no es así y en este momento contamos con varias pulgas
encontradas y reconocidas en la herramienta. Creo que el prestigio
depende de la celeridad y prontitud con que se evaluan los casos
y personalmente a nosotros nos han dejado en deuda. Espero ver
en las versiones futuras una mejor evaluación de los recursos
que brindan las predecesoras y no encontrar nuevas pulgas como
las encontradas en la versión 11.2. Gracias. |
| Es una herramienta muy productiva pero cara
en comparacion con MS .net |
| Creo que PowerBuilder es una muy buena herramienta
de desarrollo y el trabajo de la datawindow es fundamental para
las conecciones de bases de datos y hace que el trabajo se reduzca
enormemente. |
| We want PowerBuilder 12. |
| Deseariamos Conocer, todo lo que podemos realizar
en la version PB11.X de Power Builder, con el objetivo de mejorar
nuestra plataforma de desarrollo |
| Es muy triste, que dejen morir una herramienta
tan buena, no entiendo el porque de los costos tan elevados,
hagan algo para que power reviva, ya que es para mi excelente...mejoremos
la parte grafica, diseño, web en costo, y que pasa con el costo
de las licencias para los desarrolladores. Yo le debo mucho
a Power Builder y en cada compañia que he estado procuro mostrar
lo mejor... |
| HAY ALGUNA POSIBILIDAD DE QUE POWER BUILER PUEDA
CORRER EN LINUX EN EL FUTURO.. Y BUENO SERIA UNA MUY BUENA IDEA
DE PODER HABRIR UNA AULA VIRTUAL A AQUELLOS QUE QUIERAN PROFUNDISAR
MAS EL TEMA DE ESTE LENGUAJE COMO MATERIALES PARA NIVEL INTERMEDIO.
|
| Sybase Marketing in middle east especially in
Saudi Arabia is very poor against Oracle and other companies. |
| Es un lenguaje muy estructurado y facilita mucho
el acceso y manejo de datos |
| Hacer que power builder sea multiplataforma |
| Mis aplicaciones son cliente/servidor por lo
tanto utilizan demasiado el recurso de red a tal punto que se
pone un poco lento cuando hay muchos usuarios, debe existir
una forma para poder mejorar esto, la solución que estoy evaluando
es cambiar a un ambiente 3 capas, pero migrar todo lo hecho
me imagino que va ser un gran trabajo y tomara mucho tiempo.
Los datawindow tienen una propiedad que te permite extraer un
registro de la bases de datos a la vez o todos pero si la tabla
tiene unos 2 o 3 mil registros que no son muchos para mi concepto
los mismos demoran en presentarse en pantalla, pienso que esa
tarea debe ser algo mucho mas rápida y si quiero ir del primer
registro al ·ltimo sin usar un scroll pareciera que el PB pasa
registro por registro preguntando cual es el ·ltimo cuando debe
tener punteros que te envien alla directo. Saludos y continuen
mejorando, si hay alguna sugerencia será bien recibida. |
| Es uno de los lenguajes muy amigables para desarrollar
aplicaciones para empresas y tambien he probado el PB 11.5 para
WebForm y realmente es muy pesado para cargar en entorno web.
y seria bueno que mejoren en esa parte en la carga y ejecusion
del entorno web. |
| debe ser mas robusta en ambientes web |
| esta herramienta de programación para mi es
bueno, ahorro tiempo, me gustaria que el pocketBuilder se conectara
directo con Microfot SQL Server. |
| Powerbuilder es una muy buena herramienta, porque
es robusta y permite desarrollar aplicaciones en menos tiempo
que en otras herramientas, que va mejorando e integrandose a
otras tecnologías como .net. |
| Me gustaria conocer sitios (en español preferiblemente)
donde pueda encontrar información, tips y ejemplos de aplicaciones
que esten actualizado segun las versiones de esta herramienta
PB. Seria de mucha ayuda. |
| SUERTE, Y A SEGUIR MEJORANDO |
| 1. We bought PB 11 and only available update
until 11.1 Sybase release new version very fast. after buy 11.1
we need to test our application and not yet got any profit but
sybase already release new version. we hope sybase can give
us longer time to got the update (2 or 3 year free update ).
2. Sybase should be give more application sample source code.
I found it at codexchange or others website, but there are not
much sample of the PB's features. so we need more time to explore
the features. |
| Wish to use one tool for any kind of applications
for the future in any OS. |
| keep work up!!! |
| A very good product! |
| We would like a more 'up to date' user interface...
more Vista like |
| pb 12 please, asap... |
| I am a very fan of PB and working from past
6 years on PB. There are many persons (PB Professionals) with
whom i interact and having a discussions and expectations from
sybase to enhance PB to through which we can develop Web based
and RIA applications. Just not like integrating with .NET or
J2ee but as a independent application development suite. Great
Luck...! |
| Mejorar el manejo de archivos. |
| Desarrollo aplicaciones con Powerbuilder desde
el año 1993 versión 3.0 y 4.0 Beta y me parece excelente, su
evolución me ha ayudado a su vez a evolucionar mis aplicaciones
(software administrativos y del sector salud. |
| El licenciamiento es muy caro. Tienen que bajar
los precios para que sea más reconocida esta herramienta tan
buena. |
| Siento que falta mas optimización en cuanto
a la forma en que opera un sistema cuando creamos un proyecto
web procedente de una aplicación cliente servidor, me refiero
a q cuando ejecuto una aplicación cliente servidor como web
es muy lenta, quisa sea nuestra forma de desarrollar o quiza
el pb. me gustaria saber al respecto. |
| PowerBuilder is a great development tool with
unmatched productivity. However, the biggest difficulty for
us is to find PB-skilled developers. |
| Thanks PowerBuilder |
| Powerbuilder should provide state-of-art windows
graphical objects. More integration with .NET & Microsoft office
products |
| Sybase deberia dar mas apoyo publicitario a
Appeon, ya que es la unica solucion seria para aplicaciones
web desarrolladas en PB. Ademas deberian mejorar el entorno
grafico, que siempre fue espantoso. |
| PB is very good in developing classic, client
-server applications in terms of speed and stability. However,
the user interface is a major issue. You can spot a PB application
from a mile. I don't know why Sybase does not pay attention
to simple things that are very annoying for the end user. Some
examples: the menus in MDI applications in PB10.5 are flickering,
the grid is old-fashioned (e.g. no XP like or other nice headers),
Tahoma 8 fonts go too close to the grid line, if you put a background
which is not white you see a small area between the grid line
and the column painted with this background (which is not nice
at all), the tab control is old fashioned, and many others.
PB 11.5 does not address these issues. It is trying to become
a web development tool but again basic things are not being
given attention. For example: the web applications transmits
about 1MB of data just for the login screen (all the Javascript
files, so it takes for the user about 30 seconds just to see
the first screen), the screens are big and slow, you cannot
control the appearance (e.g. lowered fields do not appear with
the blue box in XP). It gives me the same feeling like client
- server development: it does 90% of the job but the remaining
10%, which is important, is not available and does never become
available. |
| Pienso que Power Builder debió integrarse a
la tecnología Web con IIS y/o con un servidor en Java, de manera
más transparente. Resulta imprescindible que Power Builder sea
coherente con su vision de ser la herramienta RAD más eficaz
y efeciente del Mercado. Si harian que la implementación de
un proyecto web en PB no sea tan fastidioso, seria un golazo. |
| |
| MUY GENIAL Y MUY ESSENCIAL APARA APLICACIONES
WEB Y MUCHO MAS.... |
| Estoy muy a gusto con power builder, porque
cubre todas mis necesidades |
| Sybase should consideer improve the marketing
of PowerBuilder |
| Actually, we are in the process of migrating
from Sybase to Oracle and we are currently looking into feasability
studies on which new language would be a good fit for our organization.
|
| Excellent 4 GL with great database connectivity! |
| Soy experto en power builder y somos totalmente
anti microsoft |
| trying to fight back the governments Java one
size fits all. |
| We've been using it for a many years now and
are excited to evaluate the recent version. |
| this is ok. |
| Best in industry. Need to be marked well to
gain its prospersity. |
| Excellent Tootl for developing business applications. |
| Please create, as in the past, the ability to
download evaluation copies of PowerBuilder. It is impossible
to sell a client on the use of PowerBuilder without help from
Sybase! |
| ability to deploy existing applications to the
web without modification |
| power builder is a very flexible & powerfull
tool,database interaction is much more easier and ultimate in
power builder than other technologies.i think its a tremendous
tool.but i really surprised,why new projects are not developed
in power builder.why peoples are not using power builder. |
| More power to Sybase |
| Thanks |
| I am really curious to know what efforts Sybase
is taking to regain the original status of PowerBuilder and
make it a tool of choice for n-tier business applications. Once
upon a time people never use to think of a tool other than PB
for business application development. |
| I think Sybase is doing a great job of keeping
PowerBuilder competitive and also a great job of providing and
supporting many useful developer resources, ie. user-community
support, on-line resources, and the many advantages of joining
ISUG. I would like to know, if anyone has any information, on
the use of PowerBuilder in ICELAND. |
| PowerBuilder runs 8 of our top 10 mission critical
systems! |
| My company wants to migrate to a web based architecture
of their current PowerBuilder windows based application. After
testing and reviewing your PB v11.5 and making a webform, we
noticed that you are using Telerik controls. We also know that
you plan a release of v12 which will be fully integrated into
Visual Studio. For us to start planning our design and structures
for developers we need more advance knowledge of this product,
is there anyway to get on a beta program for this product? I
personally have been working with PowerBuilder since v4.xx and
had worked for PowerCerv in the past. If you need additional
information about my background please let me know. Sincerely,
Bob Zagars |
| I'm the Principal SC for PowerBuilder in North
America. |
| Instead of provide traditional menu object to
generate menu for application, is it possible to provide more
new style of menu objects ( like outlook menu, windows menu
) that we can make a application more look nice. |
