PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder 11.0 - Accelerate your development.
The newest version of the market’s favorite 4GL RAD development tool, PowerBuilder, delivers the power to stay ahead of the development curve and the flexibility to develop for the platform that’s most productive for you. PowerBuilder 11 incorporates new and emerging technologies to enable you to build traditional 2-tier applications, distributed applications, Web applications and Smart Clients with speed and ease. And with this new release, you can easily deploy your existing PowerBuilder applications to .NET.

Get started with PowerBuilder 11 today, and see how quickly and easily you can build data-driven applications.

BENEFITS

• Smart for Business – You have a lot of PowerBuilder code. Your skill set is honed. Powerfully affect your bottom line by bringing your applications into the future today – with PowerBuilder 11.0. Deploy them to .NET out of the box with no new technology learning curve – just PowerBuilder.

• Open and Flexible – PowerBuilder provides open support for your RDBMS of choice and open support for deploying to your platform of choice. You can easily build and deploy client/server, Smart Client or .NET Webform applications. You can even provide solutions for "Occasionally Connected" Tablet PC applications. One tool does it all - solving your data-driven application development needs on the desktop, Web and in distributed environments.

• Highly Productive – Time is money. Build your applications in just days or weeks, not months or years. Deliver robust business applications quickly and easily and leverage patented DataWindow technology for nearly code-free data access.

• Future Proof, Risk Proof – PowerBuilder is a proven, time-tested technology. Minimize your development risk and incorporate new and emerging technologies into your applications. PowerBuilder abstracts complex new technologies and makes them easy to use, so you can easily extend your applications into the future with little risk.

• RAD Development – PowerBuilder’s 4GL IDE is replete with hundreds of built-in functions and properties that reduce the amount of coding required.

PowerBuilder Support for Vista

PowerBuilder 11.0 will, within 90 days of its general availability, support Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PowerBuilder 11.0.continues to build and deliver 32 bit applications, but will support run in both 32 and 64 bit environments with Vista.

PowerBuilder 10.5.2 will support Vista for deployment by Q3 2007.

• Mobile Development
• Component Based Development
• .NET Development Tools
• Partner products

• Eliminating Three-Week Backlog Goes a Long Way - How PowerBuilder helped create a “hotbed” of innovation and save $340,000 a year. From Sybase Magazine.
• 2007 Worldwide PowerBuilder Survey - The Current and Future use of PowerBuilder in 2007.
• Developers - Join a community of developers using Sybase PowerBuilder, find sample code, share code examples, find tech docs and more!
• Support - Get help solving problems, find technical documents, or contact technical support
• Consulting - Get help in developing and implementing Sybase PowerBuilder solutions from Sybase Professional Services.
• PowerBuilder Journal - Read more about PowerBuilder, and other development software tool products in our monthly magazine.