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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2732 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:663 comp.lang.basic.visual:27209 comp.databases.sybase:11429 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: ncharney@mutualfunds.com Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.databases.sybase Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. PowerBuilder Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 23:17:48 PDT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3bea1t$3pm@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <davebo.18.0010EDAE@mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ncharney.mutualfunds.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage In article <davebo.18.0010EDAE@mcs.com>, <davebo@mcs.com> writes: lterdial.uu.net comp.os.386bsd.development:2954 comp.lang.basic.visual:31060 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:991 comp.databases.sybase:13308 > > 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. we've been using vb as a front end for the past two years and have been quite happy w/ the results. We coded using both PB and VB for head to head comparisons and our preference was VB. One major consideration was look and feel -VB clearly had a much more standard interface. While PB definitely eases the creation of db linking, VB provided a great deal of flexibility. You know, it has a lot to do with the talents of your programmer -ours was so good Microsoft hired him away!\ good luck (oh yeah, we're on a Sun 1000) neil