I am running right with you on this one Jon. The only "company" that uses
PowerBuilder (that I know of, that is) in Nashville is the Department of
Children's Services for the State of Tennessee. They are mired down in an
application that has hardly ever been refactored and are paying the price
for the monolithic architecture.
Currently, they pay a pretty penny for their contractors, whom will never
become state employees, as their salaries will be slashed. If the state does
force budget cuts, both teh state and the devs will lose, or switch
proficiencies.
Switch to .NET devs, which are also in limited supply (compared to demand),
but there are a lot more of them. Thus, one can pull one in (mid-level) for
about $25k less than an equivalent PowerBuilder dev.
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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
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CatsCradle <Ca********@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:
>I have to prove .Net technologies over PowerBuilder of all things.
Powerbuilder is OOP, has a .net interface with the DataWindow.net. Thats
about all I know. It's a shootout between my group and another for an
upcoming project. The other group is mainframe/pb. Anyone have any ammo
I
might use?
For one thing, consider difficulties in hiring: how many PowerBuilder
developers are out there, compared with .NET developers? How much
effort is being put into improving PowerBuilder compared with the
effort MS is putting into .NET?
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