Me to. There are a lot of comments here lamenting it, but while all of their points of how good it was may be true, there are applications around today still written in PB that cause IT people pain.
Cerner's CoPath Plus is written in PB and it's atrocious. I had to pull the CoPAth VM servers out of the DC because we needed to move them, and if the IPs changed, Cerner couldn't tell us what might happen. Literally I was told, "we don't support changing IP addresses, we don't know what would happen, we'd have to reinstall the application on new servers and move the data."
I asked how much that would cost. They said $25,000. For four VMs. The main app server, a DB server, and two webservers that serve reports to the outside world. $25k to reinstall the app we already paid for and pay a support contract for.
Cerner's CoPath Plus is written in PB and it's atrocious. I had to pull the CoPAth VM servers out of the DC because we needed to move them, and if the IPs changed, Cerner couldn't tell us what might happen. Literally I was told, "we don't support changing IP addresses, we don't know what would happen, we'd have to reinstall the application on new servers and move the data."
I asked how much that would cost. They said $25,000. For four VMs. The main app server, a DB server, and two webservers that serve reports to the outside world. $25k to reinstall the app we already paid for and pay a support contract for.