Trends come and go, but things that work outlive the moniker of legacy. While the competition for tools to build new applications continues to intensify, we find the strategic direction taken by Sybase to evolve the PowerBuilder installed base well thought through and in alignment with the needs of the majority of PowerBuilder developers. The Sybase evolution strategy for PowerBuilder provides PowerBuilder developers with all the salient aspects of the successful and popular Visual Studio environment while retaining the productivity of development that is characteristic of PowerBuilder. The strategy marries the traditional advantages for which PowerBuilder has gained its fame with a successful and powerful ecosystem of software development tools that is being aggressively evolved on its own merits by Microsoft. This will allow PowerBuilder developers to leverage the power and cost-effectiveness of PowerBuilder with the flexibility and richness available in the .NET ecosystem. Sybase's strategic direction with PowerBuilder is on track to marry the past of client/server development happily with its future.