Re: RBase Vs Power Builder

[Dan Weissmann]

The one interesting thing I recall about Sybase was when Abacus was
abandoning RBase (Should we refer to this era as B.R>.?). An RBase developer
in Australia was urging everyone to switch to Sybase. He had arranged for
what was claimed to be a very good deal from Sybase for all Rbase
developers. What I found most intriguing was a claim he made that the
languages and overall design of the products were extremely close, and so
there would be a low learning curve. Does anyone remember seeing this
information?

I view this kind of stuff with great skepticism (one reason I don't have a
copy of Sybase collecting dust in my office), but the idea of having a sort
of Esperanto of databases (or a super-SQL, without lots of flavours), really
intrigues me. I wonder how compatible the two products really are. How close
are the languages? The systems?

Dan