Re: I'm in trouble with NewEra

The problem with PowerBuilder is that it will be hard for it to survive the onslaought of all the Java tools now available. If you don't want to or can't use Java your best bet for a tool that is likely to survive is actually Visual Basic. That will at least survive and be developed for a long time. There is no significant advantage to using PowerBuilder over the latest version of Visual Basic except the ability to run on a limited range of Unix machines. Java of course is our tool of choice, but then we don't have the hard time restraints you have. Although it's working very well for us now (using Visual Age for Java from IBM as a development tool) we don't yet have enough experience too say that there aren't any kind of snags that may prove problematic in some situations. We haven't seen any so far though, and don't expect any either. The main point of Java is that it's flexibility in developing enterprise database oriented applications and the ease with wich it can be done goes far outside anything these old tools can do. You get GUI design, multi tier, threading and many other facilities all in one tool. It's just great for creating better applications. On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:45:54 GMT, macleod@freemail.c3.hu (Nick MacLeod) wrote: >Syed <sas@mastic.gov.my> wrote: > >>Hi Nick, >> >>We faced the same problem too, i have decided to change to Powerbuilder >>since i have some knowledge about that software, my knowledge in New Era >>before i used it was NIL(but i went for full training), during my >>training many of my questions went unanswered, or answered with "New Era >>can't do that". However, many(IIUG) suggested go for Java or Delphi. >>Although Powerbuilder may be too object oriented(for structured >>programmers) but what we couldn't achieve in 6 months using New Era we >>have achieved it in 6 weeks. >> >>Syed. > >Thank you for the answer. > >Unfortunetly no one of us used before Powerbuilder. We have 7 months >to finish a program in NewEra. When we decide to change, we have to >beginn a 1 year project again. Is it possible to finish the whole >things in 7 (max 9) month? > >Nick Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)