Hello everyone,
we have been using PowerBuilder together with SQL Anyhwere for over 20 years. For some years now in version 17.
Unfortunately, we cannot find any information about the further development of SQL Anywhere by SAP and when a possible version 18 could be released.
1. Are we part of a minority who still use PowerBuilder with SQL Anywhere? Are there any other companies that use PowerBuilder with SQL Anywhere?
2. Does anyone (or Appeon) have any information about the future of SQL Anywhere and what SAP is planning in this direction?
That would be very interesting for us to know.
Have a nice weekend everyone.
Best regards
Heiko
Yes, the writing has been on the wall for the past 5 years. SA DBMS was designed & supported here in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. All the engineering team was let go 5 years ago ( I knew some of them) and only barebones technical support staff were left at that point. SAP's focus is Hana since they bought out Sybase. I would even wonder where the ASE roadmap is? It's a real shame as ASE & SA were "top notch" DBMS in there day but no longer being developed <sad>.
The fact is that since the release of SA17, there has been no significant further feature development and only maintenance of the software.
Until this is clarified, all customers will unfortunately remain uncertain, and for me personally, SAP has now lost a lot of trust for the time being.