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Future of powerbuilder

i am working on powerbuilder technology. But now-a-days companies are not getting any project on powerbuilder.So i want to know what will be the future of powerbuilder.

Wheather it's the time to change the technology or what ?????
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I obviously don't speak for Sybase and I haven't worked for them for over 6 years.

In my unofficial opinion, PowerBuilder won't go away. It makes up a serious percentage of Sybase's total revenues. I don't see any long term changes.

This is exactly the sort of question you could ask your local Sybase Sales rep. While obviously they have a vested interest in the answer they give you, they know better than you or I what the worldwide and national (for your country) numbers are like for PowerBuilder.
It is never a good idea to base ones entire career on a single product.  That said, PowerBuilder has gained new life with Appeon as a viable web deployment option.  PowerBuilder will be around for a while yet.

One of the issues today is that there are so many tools, languages, and frameworks out there that they all get dilluted.  In the early 90's, it was easy because you had maybe three or four common options for client server programming; Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Gupta SQL Windows, and fill in your own fourth.  Also, things were only really deployed on Windows desktops so there was a signle target platform.

As it is now, you have to support at 4 deployment targets, Web, Linux, Mac, and Windows with Web being the lowest common denominator.  There are also more languages and stacks than you can count on both hands.  Web deployment has also brought a middle tier of web and application servers.  Life just isn't simple any more

"Client/server" got a bad reputation because of the enormous percentage of poorly architected and executed systems.  Ironically, the complexity of web-based deployments means there are even more ways to screw things up (and most apps are), however, the expectations for web applications are lower.  The nice things about PowerBuilder and Appion is that you can build high-quality client server applications and then deploy them on the web without having to specify, build, and maintain a complex stack of a dozen products or more.

FWIW....

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Bill
My answer to this question is not a technical one. I don't think that sticking with one technology is a bad idea. However, you may need to take a break during recessions as number of new projects diminishes very quickly.

We are still in recession and don't expect many new projects based on relatively expensive technologies. I thought about swithcing to another technology in 2001-2002. Then I preferred to relax and wait even though I was out of contract for many months. Then everything became OK after economy started to growing again.

Now the contraction in economy is much higher than 2001. You should be patient or diverse your skills.
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Thanks ........ From ur comment i come to know about the future of power builder .........