In case you missed the Sybase Developer Days road show...

They are doing a webinar on the new PowerBuilder.Net features on Wed, May 26th.  The registration page says it's the 6th as I write this, but hopefully that will be corrected soon.

SAP buys Sybase...

Seems they were after their database and mobility components.  Not sure what this means for the rest of the company (e.g., tools).

Flex on the iPhone

What do the following 3 images have in common (beside being butt-ugly, which is a result of my meager design skills)?



If you said they're from the same "Hello World" application, you'd be largely correct.  The first is a Flash application generated from Flex Builder running in a web browser.  The second is a somewhat modified version of the same application running as a native application on a Windows Mobile 6.1 device.  The third is that same modified version running as a native application on an iPhone.

Sybase's 4 page ad in Visual Studio Magazine

My jaw dropped when I saw it.  Great move, Sybase!  It's been a long time since I've seen you spend any significant effort getting *new* customers for PowerBuilder.

Sybase ad

I scanned it at the highest possible resolution, so the file is rather large.

Schema Compare for Oracle

I worked with this product throughout the beta, and am quite happy with how well the last beta build worked.  It’s $295 a seat.  I’m actually stunned at how inexpensive it is given the price I’ve paid for similar tools in the past.  Well worth looking at if you're responsible for promoting database objects/code in an Oracle environment.

Schema Compare for Oracle

PowerBuilder 12.0 released

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sybase-PowerBuilder-12-Makes-bw-1538272306.html?x=0&.v=1

Main new features, in case you haven't been following this, are:

• Two IDEs, the Classic (32bit) IDE and the new .Net IDE based on the Visual Studio Isolated Shell


• The WPF DataWindow


• Fully managed code at runtime


• WPF Application target type (.NET IDE)


• WPF Window and WCF Client Proxy project types (.NET IDE)


• Compliance with .NET Common Language Specification (CLS) for comprehensive .NET language support and interoperability


• Runtime packager enhancements to support generation of Microsoft Merge (MSM file)


• Intellisense autoscripting support for PowerBuilder objects,  .NET classes and DataWindow object columns and controls


• Support for Tracepoints in debugging, running specified functions on the call stack, popup windows to enable easy display of variables and property values of PowerBuilder and .NET objects


• WPF Visual Inheritance

PowerBuilderTV

Looks like we finally have the equivalent of Microsoft's Channel 9 for PowerBuilder folks.

http://www.powerbuildertv.com