POWERBUILDER Strategy and Roadmap May 2009 Dave Fish, Engineering Evangelist

PowerBuilder Value Proposition PowerBuilder is the easiest, most cost effective way to leverage existing code and developer skills, and at the same time, keep business critical applications running without incurring costs to rewrite or learn new technologies Safest path to .NET, best alternative to Microsoft for PowerBuilder customers Future proofs your investment – good for business bottom line

PowerBuilder: Goals & Strategy Ensure satisfaction of loyal PowerBuilder users Sybase is the only vendor providing a migration path to .NET, leveraging customers’ investment in code and skills Attract new developers - former users, new customers Strategy Ensure PowerBuilder is easiest, most cost effective way to develop applications for the .NET platform Abstract complexities of emerging technologies Extend PowerBuilder code to .NET, Web, and Mobile development Increase awareness, usage in .NET developer base, universities Leverage Microsoft’s infrastructure, focus PowerBuilder engineering on differentiating technologies

PowerBuilder’s Roadmap to .NET Successfully executed phases 1-3, plus 2 additional releases – v10.5 and v11.5 Phase 4 to be delivered 1st half 2010 Post v12 roadmap in progress Formidable R&D investment for Visual Studio shell integration within PowerBuilder IDE for complete .NET integration Takeaway – We have had a plan for supporting .NET in place since 2002, and have executed on it. Along the way, we also delivered 2 other major releases – all to ensure that customers needs were met. Our .NET implementation was tightly bound to new MS releases for the .NET framework. When they experienced delays, we responded by quickly delivering core C/S functionality releases for our customers, then moved ahead with our scheduled .NET releases immediately upon new MS releases. We are now in the planning stages for what comes next….transitions into next slide

What’s next? Beyond .NET Comprehensive support, alignment with Microsoft platform Simplify development through technology differentiation Support emerging technologies, standards Deliver built-in end-to-end Application Lifecycle Management via MS shell Beyond PowerBuilder 12 Major and minor releases to support Silverlight – RAD development for the Web Sharepoint Webparts WCF, Oslo/M Windows 7 Cloud, SSDS (SQL Server Data Services) Multi-channel apps (different target types within the PowerBuilder IDE) What comes next? In short, we are fully committed to supporting the .NET platform because it’s the next evolution of Windows. In addition, we understand our customers work in heterogeneous dev environments and often have requirements to integrate with other applications, other technologies, and new and emerging standards. So, in addition to full support for MS, we will remain open and provide easy integration and support for other technologies and platforms. Our true value add is to abstract complexities of these technologies, including the .NET platform, and provide technology differentiators (especially continuing to advance the still unparalleled DataWindow)

Minor release, bug fixes, enhancements Current Roadmap Q2 2009 PowerBuilder 11.5.1 Minor release, bug fixes, enhancements Sept 2008 1H 2010 PowerBuilder 11.5 PowerBuilder 12.0 WebForm performance enhancements .NET Code Access Security (CAS) updates .NET language enhancements Managed code Language support WPF support Best alternative for .NET development .NET Framework 3.5.1 Maintain our paradigm and differentiators Informix 11.5 MSS 2008 DW enhancements Major DataWindow enhancements, graphics, functionality, UI Oracle 11g DB Driver updates DW WPF Web services (DW enhancements) Maintain, modernize existing applications Take away for 11.5: Major release, goodwill gesture to customer base to “make up” for delay in v12 Delay in v12 due to shift in direction – MS not enhancing winform/webform, moving to WPF NOW, we want to be as timely as possible so we’re heading there instead of enhancing winform/webform with a design time environment .NET Code Access Security - Code access security allows code to be trusted to varying degrees depending on where the code originates and on other aspects of the code's identity. Code access security also enforces the varying levels of trust on code, which minimizes the amount of code that must be fully trusted in order to run. Once our PB application is fully compatible with .NET CAS (Code Access Security) model, the application can run without the requirement of having "Full Trust" permission. This is critical to all .NET targets WPF DataWindow Web Services additional support Updated graphing, gradients, tooltips, rich text for DataWindow ISUG enhancements DW look and feel enhancements DRAFT SCHEDULE – SUBJECT TO CHANGE 6

POWERBUILDER 11.5.1

PowerBuilder 11.5.1 New Features Deployment support for the Windows 2000 platform JDK 1.6 Support FIPS 140-2 certification Support for Microsoft Office 2007 Excel formats Support for SQL Anywhere 11.0 mirroring Informix 11.5 Support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support

Deployment support for the Windows 2000 platform PowerBuilder 11.5.1 includes deployment and runtime support for the Windows 2000 platform that was previously discontinued with the PowerBuilder 11.5 release Windows 2000 is not supported as a development platform, and runtime support may be removed in future releases of PowerBuilder

JDK 1.6 Support PowerBuilder 11.5.1 applications and components include support for JDK1.6_02, that you can optionally install with the Sybase EAServer 6.2 setup program

FIPS 140-2 certification The development environment meets the encryption requirements of the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) as outlined in Publication 140-2 of the United States government's National Institute of Standards and Technology PowerBuilder embeds the Certicom 5.x cryptographic modules Support is certified for the PowerBuilder development environment only, not for runtime applications that are built with PowerBuilder The FIPS 140-2 standard requires that passwords be encrypted The PowerBuilder 11.5.1 user interface displays all passwords as strings of asterisks Some files with passwords, such as database profiles, that you export from PowerBuilder 11.5.1, cannot be correctly imported into earlier versions of PowerBuilder

FIPS 140-2 certification However you can still import files containing unencrypted passwords from earlier versions of PowerBuilder When you save these files in—or export them from— PowerBuilder 11.5.1, the passwords are encrypted using a FIPS compatible method

Support for Microsoft Office 2007 Excel formats You can now save DataWindow and graph data in .XSLX and .XSLB (Excel12) format, with or without column headers .NET Framework 3.0 or later must be installed on development and runtime computers to use this functionality Cannot save data in these formats on Windows 2000 computers You can use the PowerScript SaveAs command with graphs or DataWindow controls to save data to Excel 2007 formats by setting the saveas type argument to XLSX! or XLSB! You can export DataWindow data to Excel 2007 formats by selecting one of the Excel12 items from the drop-down list in the Save As dialog box that displays when you select the Save Rows As menu item in the DataWindow painter

Support for Microsoft Office 2007 Excel formats Excel 2007 support is dependent on the following strongly named assemblies: Sybase.PowerBuilder.DataWindow.Excel12.dll This assembly is installed in the GAC PBDWExcel12Interop115.dll This assembly is installed in the Sybase/Shared/PowerBuilder directory These DLLs are deployed by the Runtime Packager when you select the MS Excel12 Support check box

Support for SQL Anywhere 11.0 mirroring PowerBuilder 11.5.1 allows you to take advantage of SQL Anywhere 11.0 database mirroring Database mirroring is a configuration of either two or three database servers that cooperate to maintain copies of database and transaction log files If the primary server becomes unavailable because of hardware or software failure, the mirror server negotiates with the SQL Anywhere arbiter server to take ownership of the database and assume the role of primary server

Informix 11.5 Support PowerBuilder 11.5.1 applications and components work correctly with the Informix 11.5 DBMS through the I10 interface, although new Informix 11.5 features are not supported in this release You can use the 110 Informix v10.x database driver to connect to the Informix 11.5 DBMS, but this also requires that you upgrade the Informix client from Informix SDK 2.9 to Informix SDK3.5

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support PowerBuilder 11.5 included support for many of the new SQL Server 2008 features, but the GA SQL Server product was not available for complete testing before the PowerBuilder release date These features have been tested with PowerBuilder 11.5.1. They are described in the New Features Guide for PowerBuilder 11.5, and in the online Help

POWERBUILDER .NET

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development Built utilizing the Visual Studio Isolated Shell

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development Leveraging Visual Studio features Isolated Shell provides framework and features UI Editor WPF Designer Debugger Plug-in existing PowerBuilder components Database Painter SQL Painter etc.

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development Provides a familiar PowerBuilder experience Little or no re-training Provides usability enhancements consistent with other major IDEs Keeps PowerBuilder current with latest functionality

POWERBUILDER .NET DEMONSTRATION

PowerBuilder Messaging Core Messaging – All Releases Comprehensive .NET Design time Managed code runtime Full language support Visual Studio Shell integration WPF Rich UI Groundwork for Silverlight New DataWindow – now speed of development is matched by rich UI The Foundation for the Future WPF Workshop sets stage for Silverlight End-to-end development (design thru testing) via MS Support for Win32 into foreseeable future PowerBuilder is .NET The DataWindow’s productivity is unmatched Openness Multiple RDBMS support Deployment to .NET, JEE, Web, Component-based Maximizes value

Summary: PowerBuilder .NET Build WPF applications with a familiar PowerBuilder experience Provide your users with rich, progressive user interfaces

Summary: PowerBuilder .NET No need to go to another tool for your .NET requirements Extend your skills and your existing code to new incarnations of the .NET framework

Our Future, Your Future Sybase continues to be focused on the Developer PowerBuilder is the most versatile tool for the PowerBuilder community for: .NET JEE Mobile Pure Client/Server

Our Future, Your Future PowerBuilder is the smart business decision for your bottom line Reduces risk Leverages investment in code and skill Extends into the future