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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2734 comp.lang.basic.visual:27210 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:664 comp.databases.sybase:11430 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!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!bigblue.oit.unc.edu!dil.adp.unc.edu!dil.admin From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (David I. Laudicina) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.databases.sybase Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. PowerBuilder Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 08:41:37 Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 21 Message-ID: <dil.admin.1241.0008B1DB@mhs.unc.edu> References: <davebo.18.0010EDAE@mcs.com> <3be6q8$8ts@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dil.adp.unc.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] > 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> I disagree with your comments about VB. Powerbuilder is a beautiful product but whne you start adding up the cost to put it on each developers desktop with serious db access it is pretty expensive. VB gives you most of wht powerbulider does at a very inexpensive price. We use ODBC and call stored procedures against million row databases very nicely. As a programmerI like the data object paradigm. It provides a nice common interface to data and is very flexible. The real question that neither Powerbulider or VB addresses is enterprise wide development with data modelling tools and central repositories for all objects. Uniface and Symantecs have nice products but they are new and who knows who will win and what do you do when VB and Powerbulider get these capabilities. Thx Dave L