Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

Subject: Old PowerBuilder Facebook page deactivated

Hi Everyone,

Happy new year!

As of today, the old PowerBuilder facebook page is deactivated.

Please be sure to become a fan of PowerBuilder here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PowerBuilder/160355699256

Go PB!!

The following is MY perception of Sybase’s PowerBuilder:
Years ago PowerBuilder was king.  No one could touch it.  It was relatively inexpensive.  Microsoft’s Visual Basic matured and the Pascal based Borland’s Delphi was released.  Then it fell and fall it did.
As it was falling from the throne Sybase purchased Powersoft, makers of PowerBuilder.  As the the [...]

What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org
It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down.  Don’t believe me?  You know that Firefox web browser, Thunderbird newsreader, most Adobe products, Miro, etc all have it embedded?  – reference http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
We use it extensively at work as:

staging for mass data [...]

Speed in Development. Speed in Deployment. Speed in Performance.
PowerBuilder 11.2 will be available shortly and we are holding a Web seminar with John Strano to highlight the key features of this release. During this Web seminar, John will show you the new capabilities found in PowerBuilder 11.2 that bring increased performance to your mission-critical applications, [...]

From our friends at ISUG:

ISUG North American PowerBuilder Tour – Q1, 2008
Additional Dates by Popular Demand!
Sponsored by: Appeon, Enable, Novalys, Sybase
Following on from our successful multi-city tour in 2007, ISUG is pleased to announce additional dates for the PowerBuilder 11 Tour! [...]