New application development tools were coming on the market, such as PowerBuilder.
PowerBuilder offers native interfaces to all major databases, as well as ODBC and OLE-DB, in the Enterprise version.
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The programmer may utilize a common code framework such as PowerBuilder Foundation Classes, also known as PFC, to inherit objects from and leverage pre-existing code.
The two new products, MyWorkPLAN and WorkPLAN Enterprise, have been programmed using PowerBuilder, Delphi and C++, and they use MySQL as a database engine.