Why is PowerBuilders support for .NET such a big secret?
We have been telling customers about our .NET roadmap for five years, and we’ve been delivering on every phase of our plan. We are focusing our efforts on supporting the PowerBuilder community, and while we get new PowerBuilder customers all the time, our focus is not on the .NET market at large. That’s a good thing. Microsoft owns the majority of the .NET market, but we own the biggest chunk of all the rest. And that enables us to focus on delivering what we do best ensuring we simplify .NET development for the PowerBuilder developer. We leverage all the legwork that Microsoft has done, and simply make their own .NET technology easier for you to use. We also continue to enhance and expand our own patented technology, the DataWindow. Nothing beats its ease of use for complex data access, data validation, and applying your own complex business logic rules to your data presentation. And, we continue to implement your enhancement requests, update the IDE, and update our support for other
