A dormant giant gets a new lease on life as a .NET-compatible development environment.
by Yakov Werde
September 2, 2009
s the Microsoft .NET platform has matured, desktop application technologies have reached a new plateau. Decades-old client/server applications built for Win32 using the PowerBuilder platform are reaching the end of their useful life cycle, consequently IT managers and application developers are seeking the most cost-effective, lowest-risk method to move these applications into a next-generation format. The upcoming release of PowerBuilder 12, which is compliant with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) promises to be the most effective method to migrate valuable PowerScript-based code assets to a standards-compliant, interoperable format with minimum risk and exposure.
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s the Microsoft .NET platform has matured, desktop application technologies have reached a new plateau. Decades-old client/server applications built for Win32 using the PowerBuilder platform are reaching the end of their useful life cycle, consequently IT managers and application developers are seeking the most cost-effective, lowest-risk method to move these applications into a next-generation format. The upcoming release of PowerBuilder 12, which is compliant with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) promises to be the most effective method to migrate valuable PowerScript-based code assets to a standards-compliant, interoperable format with minimum risk and exposure. 
