Powerbuilder App pbds... Run on a Mac

[TravellingMan]

I'm totally lost and need some strong advice.
I have a Powerbuilder Application compiled into Windows pbds with Sql
Anywhere database. It works perfectly installed on each Windows XP
workstation and the database engine on Windows 2003 server.

The client office is breaking up and they are going to be using Macs in the
new office.

Any ideas on how how to set them up to continue to use this application?

Thanks,

Douglas

[Paul Horan[Sybase]]

PowerBuilder is Windows only...

That being said, try running inside a Windows emulator on the Mac.
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html#WinonMac

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"TravellingMan" <dat...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[metawizard2]

Douglas,

I have had a lot of success using the VMWare Player to run a virtual
machine running Windows and then have Powerbuilder running in that.
Sun also makes a virtual machine called VirtualBox, that colleagues of
mine have used.

When switching to the VM environment, they will need a valid Windows
OS license, but if they have old machines that they are getting rid of
( disposing of ) then the license should transfer ( as opposed to if
they are selling them off ). Once the VM is setup, it will run like a
true Windows PC on the network, so it can get updates, be accessed
remotely, etc.

One other option that might work for you is virtualizing to the Amazon
cloud: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Best of luck!

Austin

[Terry Voth [TeamSybase]]

This is probably nit-picking, and not a realistic answer, but it
depends on what version you're using and/or have available. There
*was* a PB version for the Mac (probably pre-OS X) back around the PB5
days. (I *believe* 5 was the last version.) It was pretty cool. You
could drag and drop PBLs from Windows to Mac (or Unix), compile and
run.

Back in those days, the answer to the obvious question when the Mac
version was deprecated was to leverage the web deployed solutions. (We
won't get into how bitter a pill that was given some of the options
back then. <beg>) I have no idea if PB11's WebForms work on IE
(required) on the Mac, but I'd imagine the HTML DataWindow and
app-server-based-NVOs, integrated into a regular web/HTML application,
would work on a Mac as a client. WebForms *could* be pretty easy,
depending on what's in the app. HTML DW approach is closer to an
entire refactoring of your application to a new GUI (e.g. if your
business logic is buried in commandbutton events and window events,
you'll have a lot of work to do.)

That being said, from what I've heard, VMs and Boot Camp are pretty
much expected on the Mac these days, so I'd imagine these would be
much more palatable options.

Good luck,

Terry and Sequel the techno-kitten

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[Jeremy Lakeman]

Your options are basically, VM's on each machine, Terminal Server so
you can centralise maintenance.
Or you might be able to get your application running directly in OSX
using wine http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX.