Questions for PowerBuilder Application Owners

PowerBuilder is now considered a legacy application development product. If you’re a PowerBuilder application owner—evaluating the status quo and version migration versus alternatives—consider the following:

1. Is your best talent leaving to pursue new technologies taking hard-to-replace critical business knowledge with them?
   
   
2. Does being tied to a proprietary technology from a single vendor put your business at risk?
   
   
3. Do you want a current, strategic and flexible technology to help you Web- and Internet-enable your applications?
   
   
4. Do lagging functionality enhancements for PowerBuilder impact your business-critical applications?
   
   
5. What impact will an end-of-life-announcement for PowerBuilder have on production applications?
   
   
6. How does the stated long-term direction for PowerBuilder map to your business needs?

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