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PBDJ News Desk monitors the world of PowerBuilder to present IT professionals with updates on technology advances, business trends, new products and standards in the PowerBuilder and i-technology space.
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How Does NY State Manage
Its PowerBuilder
Applications? By PowerBuilder News Desk  Most applications need
upgrades and corrections.
If you maintain in-house
development you want to
be particularly sharp
about this. You can't
afford to lose
knowledgeable people to
turnover and be left with
no one able to maintain
mission-critical
applications. So... Jun. 5, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 1,711 | 2008 Worldwide
PowerBuilder Survey By PowerBuilder News Desk Novalys is holding its
8th annual PowerBuilder
Worldwide Survey. This
survey is a great
feedback mechanism for
the entire PowerBuilder
community. You'll see how
the thousands of
responses received in
2007 clearly demonstrate
that PowerBuilder
projects are increasi... May. 28, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 1,452 | Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have been
added to the latest
version of Sybase
PowerBuilder 11, the
premier 4GL rapid
application development
(RAD) tool. PowerBuilder
11.2 represents another
milestone ... May. 19, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 5,643 | The PowerBuilder
Blogosphere By PowerBuilder News Desk  A sign of a vibrant
developer community is
the active blogosphere
that surrounds a
technology. Here's a more
or less random selection
of what's being talked
about this month in the
PowerBuilder community's
blogs. Support for the
Data Pipeline in
PowerBuilder .NET ... Mar. 23, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 4,445 | The PowerBuilder
Blogosphere By PowerBuilder News Desk  A sign of a vibrant
developer community is
the active blogosphere
that surrounds a
technology. Here's a more
or less random selection
of what's being talked
about this month in the
PowerBuilder community's
blogs. Specifying Null
Values as Retrieval
Arguments in th... Mar. 10, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 3,258 | Embracing Eclipse: An
Interview with Kevin
Gomes By PowerBuilder News Desk  The Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute
(MBARI) was founded in
1987 by David Packard.
It's located in Moss
Landing, California,
where its three research
ships and two remotely
operated vehicles are
berthed, giving them
immediate access to
Monterey Bay. MBARI ... Mar. 10, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 3,541 | Well-Informed Business
Planning By PowerBuilder News Desk  At EMI Music Germany,
decision makers use
detailed business
intelligence (BI)
analytics to control all
sales and marketing
activities for new music
titles, and to monitor
sales success and
profitability in real
time. To monitor its
sales development
continuously... Mar. 5, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,801 | What's the Web-Buzz from
the PowerBuilder
Community? By PowerBuilder News Desk  A sign of a vibrant
developer community is
the active blogosphere
that surrounds a
technology. Here's a more
or less random selection
of what's being talked
about in the PowerBuilder
community's blogs
recently. A Noob's
Thoughts on PowerBuilder
- by Rob Little. A ... Mar. 3, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 3,566 | MBARI Puts JBuilder 2007
Enterprise Edition
Through Its Paces By PowerBuilder News Desk  MBARI has been making the
headlines recently as a
high-profile JBuilder
2007 Enterprise Edition
user. In this Exclusive
Q&A with SYS-CON's
PowerBuilder Developer's
Journal, MBARI Senior
Software Engineer Kevin
Gomes talks about the
role of Eclipse in that
decision... Feb. 28, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 4,486 | Business Information at
the Touch of a Button By PowerBuilder News Desk  Helifix is a market
leader in the manufacture
of wall ties, fixings and
masonry reinforcement and
repair systems. The
company has 35 employees
in its West London
headquarters and
manufacturing plant in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Helifix products are
supplied worldwide, ... Feb. 28, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 2,561 | Sybase Success Story:
Creating Informational
Unity . . . By PowerBuilder News Desk  Using the experience and
results of the University
Education Process Control
(UEPC) implementation
based on Sybase
technology, The Russian
Economic Academy of G.V.
Plekhanov modernized its
entire IT infrastructure
by creating informational
unity across the
univers... Feb. 24, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 3,025 | Additional Dates
Announced for ISUG
PowerBuilder 11 Tour By PowerBuilder News Desk The International Sybase
User Group has announced
additional dates for its
North American
PowerBuilder 11 Tour -
'Leveraging PowerBuilder
in the .NET World' -
following the success of
the original thirteen
city tour across the
United States and Canada
in October, ... Feb. 7, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 4,376 | PowerBuilder News By PowerBuilder News Desk  01/12/2008 - Brad Wery
announced his new
website: www.PowerToTheBu
ilder.com. The site
offers a variety of GUI
components to help you
change the look of the
software you create with
PowerBuilder. Adding any
of the following to your
PowerBuilder application
will giv... Feb. 3, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,378 | Enable Runtime Explorer
2.5 Releases Beta Version By PowerBuilder News Desk Enable Runtime Explorer
2.5 beta features new
automatic source change
technology and the
ability to write your own
plug-ins. Enable Runtime
Explorer (or simply Rex)
is a runtime component
that helps developers
with their development,
debugging and technical
suppor... Jan. 21, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 2,947 | PowerBuilder News By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase has announced that
TransUnion, a provider of
credit and information
management, has chosen
Sybase IQ to power its
database of 280 million
credit consumers. Sybase
IQ, a highly optimized
analytics server, was
able to handle
TransUnion's challenging
data ware... Jan. 16, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 4,128 | PowerBuilder News By PowerBuilder News Desk  A new build of Coolmenu
was released that
includes the following
modifications: Crash
solved when using
ChangeMenu; Bug solved
when hiding and showing
menuitems on the menubar;
Colors more Office
2003-like.
http://pbsite.milente.nl Jan. 9, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 3,784 | Wikipedia Founder Jimmy
Wales Sets Jan 7 As Wikia
Search Launch Date By PowerBuilder News Desk  Wikipedia founder Jimmy
Wales has set Jan. 7 as
the launch date for his
open-source search
project, dubbed Wikia
Search. According to the
Washington Post Wales,
who has described Yahoo!
and Google as opaque
services that don't
explain how results are
arrived at, s... Jan. 3, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 6,137 | Sybase to Present
"Model-Driven SOA"
Session at SOA World
Conference & Expo By PowerBuilder News Desk In traditional
application
architectures, the design
phase in the Software
Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) plays a critical
role in enabling
well-architected
solutions. Yet there
hasn't been much
discussion about the
design or the modelling
phase of SOA-based
ap... Nov. 9, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 7,934 | Sybase PowerBuilder 11
Momentum Continues with
Further Microsoft .NET
Enhancements By PowerBuilder News Desk Sybase has announced new
Microsoft .NET
Framework-based
enhancements to
PowerBuilder 11 and
DataWindow.NET 2.5. New
features for PowerBuilder
include Windows Vista
support, .NET Framework
incremental compile
capabilities, and
database driver
enhancements. DataWi... Oct. 31, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 8,124 | Sybase Unwired Enterprise
Solutions Win 10 Mobile
Star Awards By PowerBuilder News Desk Sybase, Inc., has
announced that it has won
seven Gold and three
Silver Mobile Star Awards
from MobileVillage, a
provider of market
development and news
services about mobile
technology. The annual
Mobile Star Awards aim to
honor and promote the
best companies, pr... Oct. 8, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 8,430 | ISUG Hits the Road with
PowerBuilder 11 By PowerBuilder News Desk Showing its strong
commitment to the Sybase
community, the
International Sybase User
Group has announced that
it will be taking to the
road with a series of
PowerBuilder-focused
events under the banner
'Leveraging PowerBuilder
in the .NET World.' These
hands-on te... Oct. 7, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 9,767 | Sybase to Present
"Planning For
Synchronization in RIAs"
Session at AJAXWorld By PowerBuilder News Desk New technologies such as
Google Gears are blurring
the boundary between
online web-based
applications and offline
desktop applications.
'Occasionally connected'
applications that can
work whether offline or
online promise to solve
many of the limitations
of both d... Sep. 10, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 12,931 Replies: 1 | Sybase TechWave 2007:
Sybase CEO John Chen on
SYS-CON.TV By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase Chairman, CEO, and
President John Chen
discussed his company's
overall strategy, as well
as key aspects of ASE
15.0 and Sybase's growing
wireless business in an
exclusive interview with
SYS.CON.TV. He also went
into the challenges and
opportunities offered by
China today. Aug. 9, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 20,638 Replies: 3 | Sybase TechWave 2007:
Sybase 365 Extends Mobile
Banking Services to the
Americas By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase 365 has announced
its mobile banking
services are available to
financial institutions in
the Americas, extending
its reach from Asia and
Europe. In addition, the
company commissioned a
mobile banking survey
across the United States,
Canada, Mexico, Argentina ... Aug. 9, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 11,120 | Sybase Techwave 2007:
Sybase Showcases
Leadership and Innovation
at Annual TechWave
Conference By PowerBuilder News Desk Developers, database
administrators, IT
managers, sales
professionals and
executives from 40
countries around the
world are meeting in Las
Vegas this week for the
annual Sybase, Inc.,
TechWave User Training
and Solutions Conference. Aug. 9, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 10,593 | Sybase Techwave 2007:
Sybase iAnywhere
Recognized as One of Top
Three Mobile Middleware
Market Leaders By PowerBuilder News Desk Sybase iAnywhere was
recently recognized by
IDC as a worldwide
leading provider of
mobile middleware. The
report, Worldwide Mobile
Middleware 2007-2011
Forecast and 2006 Vendor
Shares, measured Sybase
iAnywhere?s higher
revenues and market
share-results that place... Aug. 9, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 9,033 | Sybase TechWave 2007:
Sybase Previews Next
Generation Architecture
for Unwiring the
Enterprise By PowerBuilder News Desk  'The Unwired Enterprise
is already a reality -
now we are taking it to
the next level, enabling
companies to easily
develop and deploy mobile
applications that extend
the reach of
business-critical
information to users on
the front lines,' said
John Chen, chairman... Aug. 9, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 11,305 | Sybase TechWave 2007:
Sybase IQ Analytics
Server Creates
Competitive Advantage for
Financial Services Firms By PowerBuilder News Desk 'The Sybase IQ analytics
server combines speed and
agility with low total
cost of ownership,
enabling financial
services companies to
perform analytics that
were previously
unachievable or
cost-prohibitive,' said
Kathleen Schaub, vice
president of the
Informatio... Aug. 9, 2007 07:00 AM Reads: 7,419 | Sybase TechWave 2007:
Sybase and HTC Unite to
Deliver More Secure,
Better Managed Mobile
Solutions By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase, Inc., a provider
of enterprise
infrastructure and mobile
software, and HTC Corp.,
a provider of Microsoft
Windows Mobile-based
smart devices, have
formed a global alliance.
The companies are teaming
on strategic business,
engineering and marketing
initiati... Aug. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 10,725 | All Things of Interest to
the PB Community By PowerBuilder News Desk  05/26/2007 -
TopWizProgramming
announced that PBSearch
was updated to support
PB11 and to add several
new features. www.topwiz
programming.com/pbsearch.
html Jul. 11, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 8,244 | Plastic SCM 1.5 Released By PowerBuilder News Desk Codice Software has
released Plastic SCM 1.5,
the new version of its
SCM product. This new
release is a step ahead
in the product's
evolution and introduces
many important new
features and
enhancements. Jul. 6, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 8,105 | Sybase Becomes "Silver
Sponsor" of SOA World and
Enterprise Open Source
Conferences By PowerBuilder News Desk Sybase is the largest
global enterprise
software company
exclusively focused on
managing and mobilizing
information from the data
center to the point of
action. Sybase provides
open, cross-platform
solutions that securely
deliver information
anytime, anywhere,
e... Jun. 19, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 9,916 | All Things of Interest to
the PowerBuilder
Community By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase iAnywhere
announced that Grant
Thornton LLP, one of the
largest accounting, tax
and business advisory
firms in the U.S., has
selected Information
Anywhere Afaria mobile
device management
technology to ensure that
its policies, procedures,
and other technica... Jun. 11, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 11,808 | Sybase Reports Solid 2007
First Quarter Results By PowerBuilder News Desk Sybase, Inc. , a leading
provider of enterprise
infrastructure and mobile
software, today reported
financial results for the
first quarter ended March
31, 2007. May. 1, 2007 01:45 AM Reads: 10,462 | Novalys Releases Visual
Expert 5.7 By PowerBuilder News Desk Novalys has just launched
a new version of Visual
Expert, a tool that
automates impact
analysis, generates
source code
documentation, and checks
code quality. Visual
Expert 5.7 analyzes both
PowerBuilder and Stored
Procedures code (Sybase
ASE, Oracle and Microsoft... Apr. 20, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 12,316 | Profit Tools By PowerBuilder News Desk  Profit Tools is able to
rapidly create an
affordable,
full-function, extensible
and scalable solution
that has been
enthusiastically embraced
by small to mid-sized
commercial trucking
companies. Nearly 200
companies have
implemented Profit Tools;
these customers... Apr. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,487 | Amyuni Updates Windows
Vista PDF Product Suite By PowerBuilder News Desk Amyuni Technologies
launches v3.0 of its PDF
Converter, PDF Creator
and PDF Suite products.
All products are now
Microsoft Vista
compatible, with full
support for both PDF and
XPS and offere extremely
accurate conversion of
any type of document into
PDF and XPS, the company
says. Apr. 3, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 10,902 Replies: 1 | Amyuni Technologies
Launches v3.0 of PDF
Converter, PDF Creator
and PDF Suite By PowerBuilder News Desk Amyuni Technologies has
released v3.0 of its PDF
Converter, PDF Creator,
and PDF Suite products,
now Microsoft Vista
compatible, with support
for both PDF and XPS.
They offer a complete
solution for creating,
converting, and
processing both PDF and
XPS documents. Apr. 3, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 9,098 Replies: 1 | The Tuesday 'Skunk Works'
Lunch Club By PowerBuilder News Desk  Natexis Bleichroeder,
Inc., a subsidiary of
Natexis Banques
Populaires, is a
specialized investment
bank based in New York
with offices in several
other U.S. cities and
affiliates in London and
Paris. The firm
specializes in global
equity sales, trading,
and cap... Mar. 18, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,462 | Bayer BioScience By PowerBuilder News Desk  Founded in 1982 as a
spin-off of the
University of Ghent,
Belgium, Bayer BioScience
is one of the main
innovation and research
centers for Bayer
CropScience. It is now a
division of the
multinational chemical,
medical, and
biotechnology concern
Bayer AG. With it... Feb. 6, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 8,198 |
PBDJ LATEST STORIES . . . Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo By RIA News Desk  Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be | A Technology Leap for
PowerBuilder Developers By Chris Pollach  Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder
version 11.2. I am proud
to say that I haven't
missed a beta since
November 1989 (version
0.8) and that includes
PocketBuilder and
InfoMaker too. I need to
thank the people at
Sybase for co | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities By Jim O'Neil  In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin | HarPB Tool Review By Al Soucy  HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State By Bruce Armstrong  Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach  I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD |
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SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS BREAKING POWERBUILDER / SYBASE NEWS  | Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe | A Technology Leap for
PowerBuilder Developers Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder ver | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and W | HarPB Tool Review HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harv | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder. | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: Wh | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploy | Sanity, Strategy,
Sustainability: The New
World of Verification
Platforms The lines between
embedded and enterprise
computing are blurring.
As embedded devices
become more an | Publishing .NET Web
Services Using SQL
Anywhere 10.0.1 In this article we're
going to take a database
and create our own mini
version of an
'Amazon-like' i | PowerBuilder Editorial -
"There You Go Again" If that doesn't ring a
bell, it's from the
Reagan / Carter debates
in the 1980 election
cycle. Carte | Integrated Support for
XML Data Management XML is increasingly being
used as the language of
data exchange. An XML
document based on a DTD
or a | SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo: Themes
& Topics From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discu | How Does NY State Manage
Its PowerBuilder
Applications? Most applications need
upgrades and corrections.
If you maintain in-house
development you want to
be | PowerBuilder and UPS
Shipping Does your shipping
department have these
problems? Extra charges
due to incorrect
addresses? Difficu | Using the Eclipse Data
Tools Platform with
PowerBuilder and SQL
Anywhere The Eclipse Data Tools
Platform (DTP) is now a
top-level project at
eclipse.org. Originally
proposed | 2008 Worldwide
PowerBuilder Survey Novalys is holding its
8th annual PowerBuilder
Worldwide Survey. This
survey is a great
feedback mec | View "Virtualization
Power Panel" Live on
SYS-CON.TV Red Hat CTO Brian
Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon
Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete
Manca, Allen Stewart,
Group Man | Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have bee | The PB Future: More on
Graphs in PowerBuilder
11.5 Last week I posted a
screen shot of the new 3D
Rendering capabilities
being added to some of
the 3D | BluePhoenix Expands
Modernization
Collaboration with
Microsoft BluePhoenix announced
that it has expanded its
collaboration with
Microsoft on legacy
modernization |
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Aerospace and Defense in
1983 and worked at MITRE
Corp., BAE Systems, and
the State of NH. I worked
in the defense field
performing software