PowerBuilder is a popular rapid application development (RAD) tool for buildingobject-oriented programmingclient/serverapplications the parts of which can bedistributedwithin a network. PowerBuilder is a product of Sybase, a company that has historically been a leader in selling products for building distributed and replicateddatabasein networks. A major feature of PowerBuilder (and its competitors) is the ability to create databases using an object-oriented interface. Applications created with PowerBuilder can access other popular types of databases on other major platforms using Open Database Connectivity (ODC).
Contributor(s): Till Gartner and Tom Swift
This was last updated in April 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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