Hi David;
Thank you for that feedback from your perspective!
FWIW: The only way PB will ever see any further use or re-adoption in the Canadian Federal government is if it becomes fully web enabled. By that I mean fullyHTML5 compliant. The current direction of both the federal and provincial governments is web only - no mobile - no native applications. While native mobile solutions are being looked at, they are not strategic at this time. The other big factor is J2EE support. Right now, about 60% of my Cdn government clients use Java vs .Net. So while transparent .Net interoperability is definitely a key consideration ... transparent Java interoperability is also a key factor locally to my clientele.
I can't speak on what Appeon sees application development internationally though - so it might just be my local government client bias. I would be interested to hear what other PB developers see in their realm currently.
Regards ... Chris
PS: The VS plug-in route also makes me nervous vs the unique PB IDE approach making it distinctive. Maybe its the bad taste the DW.Net product left in my mouth. Most comments from the government departments who tried DW.Net (and there were quite a few) were: a) there are better data plug-ins available today; b) the DW features need more polish and c) my MS salesperson said that if I buy VS - that's all I need.
=> "C" was the big killer. IT Management said .. " I spent all this money on VS - make it work as is".
PPS: One last thought ... SAP's application & tools direction is Java & HTML5 (what is that telling us?).
