Mike Eliott
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We are looking at switching from a 20 year Cobol application over to a 4GL environment.
Management is pushing for PowerBuilder (4GL). We have a very experienced Progress developer who is pushing hard for Progress. We have even found a Progress app that already does much of what we want to do....
The problem is, our manager has been in companies who use Power Builder. Never really heard of Progress before it was brought up here. Web searches compare PowerBuilder to Java, .NET, C++, etc..
I have no idea other than I like what I read about 4GL languages and several references strongly recommending Progress. What I do read about Progress is that it is the "best kept secret" out there. It is hard to convince management to go with something they have never heard of.
Any thoughts you might like to share would be appreciated !
Mike
Management is pushing for PowerBuilder (4GL). We have a very experienced Progress developer who is pushing hard for Progress. We have even found a Progress app that already does much of what we want to do....
The problem is, our manager has been in companies who use Power Builder. Never really heard of Progress before it was brought up here. Web searches compare PowerBuilder to Java, .NET, C++, etc..
I have no idea other than I like what I read about 4GL languages and several references strongly recommending Progress. What I do read about Progress is that it is the "best kept secret" out there. It is hard to convince management to go with something they have never heard of.
Any thoughts you might like to share would be appreciated !
Mike