Objective

This chapter looks ahead at where PowerBuilder is going, should be going, and might be going in terms of distributed application development. This is not the Sybase technical roadmap for the future of PowerBuilder, but the collective opinions of several key people, Sybase folks, and Sybase customers.

As always, when opinions are delivered, they should be taken as such. Our view of the world and where our favorite technology should be headed might be different from the folks that have to view things from some different angles, including “What can we do that will help increase sales?” As developers, what we really want is for all the latest cool features to be built in, easy to use, fully functional and high-performing. That's not too ...

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