Re: Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

Hi

Seems like a splendid opportunity for Miscrosoft to capitalise on this with some snazzy new additions to VB in the next release. I have been using Powerbuilder for quite some time know and it's a good product, however, for Complex Systems i.e. Smart AI based database applications give me VB anyday. I find VB much more felixible when it comes to the KEE type look and feel required in an Expert System shell for example.

I think that all this will prove is that Powerbuilder is the Sybase of the Client/Server tools and that Visual Basic is the Oracle of the Client/Server tools. I don't think Oracle has anything to fear - in fact it really is a great opportunity.

Martyn Jones,
Comapq Computer Corporation, Munich.

p.s. Not the views - perhaps - of my employer   

>I heard today that Sybase bought PowerSoft for something like 960 million.
>So how do you think this is going to affect Oracle?
>
>The real cost of software development is in the code, not in the back-end
>database. If Sybase chooses to make powerbuilder/oracle "second tier", will
>people replace their oracle servers with Sybase ones, if it becomes necessary?
>
>This could be very interesting indeed.
>
Received on Mon Nov 21 1994 - 01:40:41 CET