The launch of PowerBuilder 8 coincides with the 10 year anniversary of the
product. Sybase focused on three major areas in this release - the Web,
EAServer integration, and n-tier development and productivity. Sybase has
introduced a host of new features that speed up the development of
client/server applications and provide some significant capabilities for next
generation application development. The following is a Q & A with the
PowerBuilder product manager, Sue Dunnell, and the editors of PBDJ.
Q: Toward whom is this release oriented?
A: This release was designed with the needs of our customer base in mind.
Many of our customers plan to maintain and develop existing and new two-tier
applications with PowerBuilder 8. For these customers we've added many
features to h... (more)
There's no denying it. We're living in an n-tier world, especially since the
release of PowerBuilder 7.0 and the Web DataWindow. It's almost
counterintuitively caused many PB developers to ask themselves questions
like: "What am I going to do with my client/server PowerBuilder skills? Where
is the market going? Do I have to learn Java and JavaScript? Or C++? Or VB
and VBScript?"
As the ... (more)
PowerBuilder 10.5 is almost ready, and I'm sure you have a lot of questions
about what's in the release and how it can make your job easier. You are also
probably wondering why it's called "10.5," how it fits in with our roadmap
for PowerBuilder, and what our plans are for tools in general, especially in
light of the news that Borland is selling off its IDE product set. I will
attempt to... (more)
Are you a long-time PowerBuilder user who's still developing on an early
version such as 5.x or 6.x? If so, now is the perfect time to move to
PowerBuilder 9.0 for two reasons:
1. You'll get the latest version of the industry's leading RAD environment
with new client/server, Web, and distributed functionality.
2. You'll be on a supported version of PowerBuilder. Engineering support
for ... (more)
Remember the excitement you felt when you first learned to develop
applications with PowerBuilder? Instead of taking three weeks to build a
window like your C counterparts, you were painting windows in less than three
minutes - and you were able to code functionality to connect those windows to
your enterprise database! You delighted management by delivering projects in
record time, you ... (more)
Sue Dunnell is the product manager for PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, DataWindow.NET, and Pocket PowerBuilder at Sybase. But, she began her career in criminal justice with undergraduate and graduate degrees in that field. Aftert nine years of private investigations, consulting, and teaching at Northeastern University, she switched fields and received a Master's degree from Northeastern's Graduate School of Engineering. Previously at Sybase, Sue worked in the Custom/Alliance techsupport group and in a staff position dedicated to internal training, hiring, customer service and certifications. Sue briefly left Sybase to work at an internet startup, but came back to PowerBuilder, and currently works in Concord, Massachusetts.
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