STD FC's - End of Support for PB.Net

** News Update **

Software Tool & Die Inc 

Foundation Classes for PowerBuilder

  STD earlier this week released its figures on the various downloads of their framework for PowerBuilder, EAServer, Appeon and Web Services for 2013. While the framework downloads in total were way above the previous year, the usage of the PB.Net framework was very low.

Here are the actual framework individual statistics for 2013 ....

 PowerBuilder Classic ...................  2,238
 PowerBuilder .Net     .....................       64
 EAServer  ......................................     238
 Appeon Web  .................................     732
 Appeon Mobile *  ............................     335
 Web Services * .............................     131
 PowerBuilder Integrated * .............  1,125

* = New in 2013


  STD has also received feedback from the PowerBuilder Community on its use and plans for the PowerBuilder.net IDE. Based on this research and actual feedback it is now evident that the PB community is not adopting the PB.Net technology for general use. For this reason, STD is announcing the End of Life of the PB.NET version only of their frameworks. Should the situation change  in the future, STD may reconsider reinstating the PB.Net support.

   Instead, based on actual feedback from PB developers, IT shops, etc - STD feels that their best focus of development resources should be placed on Web Services (for PB Classic), PB Classic itself and the Appeon Web & Mobile product areas.


Regards ... Chris