Today, I went for the PowerBuilder user group meeting in Rockaway,NJ.
John's presentation about their DataWindow control for the .Net
platform was beautiful. Also, their plans to 'invade' the .Net
platform with their version was outlined. DataWindow.Net with all its
feature richness impressed me for one who doesn't use PB for anything
but accessing the Oracle Database at work.I use infragistics at work
and hate it.If there is one 'third party control' that is the nemesis
of Infragistics, it is DataWindow.Net. The question I had but did not
ask was how long before Borg like Microsoft assimilates it. The
evangelist's enthusiasm and fierceness for his technology reaffirmed
my belief in religion of simplicity and user friendliness. I dont know
the industry well enough to predict if PB will live,die or
re-incarnate but today I have become a little wiser and know that
Microsoft has competition in many of the technologies its working on.
Trivia:
1. I was the youngest in the crowd and I am 31 and not a PB developer.
2. Pizza was not so good.
3. If PB wants to survive they need to attract younger crowd, guys who
think anything other than hacking is a distraction.
4. I won the DataWindow.Net 1.0 (Windows) giveaway!! Thank You PowerSoft/Sybase
