There will be official announcement going out to existing customers in the near future to explain the changes, but we have decided to rename the product for two reasons:
1. People were confusing these products with PowerBuilder. The full product name is Appeon for PowerBuilder Web and Appeon for PowerBuilder Mobile, which we've abbreviated as Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile. As you can see, Appeon for PowerBuilder and Appeon PowerBuilder look almost identical. The other thing is that "Appeon" is our company name and we wanted the product to have its own identity.
2. We wanted the name to highlight the server aspect of the product. Historically, the product had both a developer toolkit and a server-side layer. Now that PowerBuilder is under our control, the developer toolkit will simply be integrated in new versions of PowerBuilder, so all that customers are licensing separately from PowerBuilder is the server-side layer.
In terms of any changes, as I've already alluded the product packaging/installation will be different than before. Starting from PowerServer 2017 and newer, we will no longer be providing a developer toolkit separate from PowerBuilder. So customers that upgrade to PowerServer 2017 or newer will need to upgrade to PowerBuilder 2017 or newer. PowerBuilder 2017 will be backwards compatible with Appeon Web/Mobile 2016 versions.