Re: NewEra, Powerbuilder or Visual Basic?

At 06:26 PM 6/17/96 -0400, Vidya Baliga wrote: >I am a programmer with a small software company working with cobol on a >unix platform. My boss wants to move to making software in Windows >environment. We are considering the above mentioned tools. Are there any >advantages of one over the other two? Which do you prefer and why? I would >appreciate an e-mail as we have to make a decision by the end of this >week. Dear Vidya, VB: Cheap, good Windoze integration, limited functionality, not OO. PB: Cheaper than NE, not as powerful, not (as far as I'm aware) OO. NE: Expensive, fully OO (well,...), very powerful, still has some quirks. If you're a small software house and selling small packages, I'd say VB (ugh!) is the way to go. The biggest problem that I have with VB is that it really comes across like a front-end with limited scripting capabilities, and you can forget about application partitioning and the like. PB is pretty much the same, although they claim OO. I think they might have just confused OO with event-driven... All IMHO & FWIW. HTH. Hasta la vista! -- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za