Jacek Furmankiewicz is a PowerBuilder R&D supervisor at the Montreal office of STS Systems, an NSB company. His team is responsible for developing applications for some of the largest retailers in North America and Europe. Jacek has been using PowerBuilder since version 4.0 in Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
A common question we see in the newsgroups is 'Where do I get the free version of InstallShield,' or something along those lines. The truth is that deploying PowerBuilder applications is so easy (in most cases) that a full-blown, large commercial tool like InstallShield is overkill...
Jul. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,403
Expanding into other language markets presents an ample challenge for any PowerBuilder shop. In my case, we were faced with internationalizing our existing sales audit application into French (we're based in Quebec, where French versions of applications are required by law), as well as...
