PowerBuilder sits at 0.03% market share. It's not in the TIOBE top 20. Universities dropped it years ago.
But Appeon shipped PowerBuilder 2025 in May. Nearly 10,000 companies still run it in production. US federal agencies renewed licenses in 2023.
Legacy? Yes. Abandoned? Far from it.
The real problem isn't the software. It's the DataWindow. There's no direct equivalent in any modern framework, and the developers who built them have mostly retired.
We looked at what that actually means for organizations still on PowerBuilder, and what migration paths hold up in practice.
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