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From: rolenewa@uoguelph.ca (Ricardo Olenewa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.databases.sybase
Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. PowerBuilder
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Date: 29 Nov 1994 03:22:48 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
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Dave Borowiec (davebo@mcs.com) wrote:
: Has anyone done a comparison of these 2 tools?  We are running Sybase System 
: 10 on Unix on an HP9000 series 800 server.  We plan to do Windows client 
: development using one of these 2 packages.  Any information/results would be 
: appreciated....Of course, any general comments would be great, too!  
: Thanks in advance.

	If you're looking to do. From the sounds of your setup, it looks 
like you need a serious Client/Server environment, in which case 
Powerbuilder would be the way to go. On the other hand -- if you're 
looking for a quick and dirty way of making a user friendly front-end, 
then you could squeak by with VB.

<other opinions welcome>

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