Joe Fritsch

PowerBuilder has been a popular choice for client/server application development for many years and there are a half-million existing applications in production today. The explosive growth of the Internet has changed the way companies do business and led to the introduction of middle-tier application servers as key components of distributed Web-based three-tier applications. For companies that have invested in PB in the past, it's important to understand how to migrate existing client/server applications to a multitier architecture in a way that maximizes the return on the investment in PB technology. The ROI of PB can be measured by the ability to reuse existing code, to move to the Web without significant retraining costs, and to integrate with other technologies. Why Move PB Applications to the Web? Although the traditional client/server architecture meets the nee... (more)

Maximizing the Return on Your Investment in PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder has been a popular choice for client/server application development for many years and there are a half-million existing applications in production today. The explosive growth of the Internet has changed the way companies do business and led to the introduction of middle-tier application servers as key components of distributed Web-based three-tier applications. For companies that have invested in PB in the past, it's important to understand how to migrate existing client/server applications to a multitier architecture in a way that maximizes the return on the invest... (more)