as programming languages and application architectures have come and gone, we are hard-pressed to find an environment as productive to develop in as PowerBuilder. What's more, PowerBuilder has been evolved aggressively as these shifts have taken place. This fact has not been lost on PowerBuilder developers, many — if not most — of whom have continued to use the product as their primary development tool years after they may have run into it for the first time. In our exploration of the PowerBuilder developer community, we have noticed a degree of ardor and fondness that truly stands out even in a world where everyone is ardent about their favorite language or tool. This has translated into a level of stickiness in PowerBuilder adoption that also stands out in this market. Languages and development tools are sticky in the sense that once developers have adopted them, they tend to stick to their decisions due to invested skill and know-how, accumulated code libraries, and the generally steep learning curve of application development technology in general. Additionally, most programmers have obligations to maintain applications they have developed in the past and thus avoid switching toolsets unnecessarily. In the case of PowerBuilder, Sybase's plan of record is to continue to ensure that developers are able to fully leverage both the Visual Studio IDE and the .NET runtime while retaining their invested skills and the power and productivity of PowerBuilder