PowerBuilder too. I worked for an S&P 500 corporation from 2000 to 2006 trying to replace several business critical PowerBuilder apps in Java using a bloated commercial framework called Windchill. The original apps were written by a handful of developers over the years. The new team was fifty developers that struggled to replicate the old app functionality. We did manage to reimplement a couple of the old apps but they took a lot longer than anticipated and were incredibly slow.
The corporation chose Java/Windchill for the rewrite instead of PowerBuilder because Java was trendy. Both the original and replacement apps were desktop applications. During development of the new apps, browser based applications became trendy and some of the developers really wanted to switch to browser-based. Fortunately, that shipped had sailed. Can you imagine writing business critical apps for the browser in 2002?!
The corporation chose Java/Windchill for the rewrite instead of PowerBuilder because Java was trendy. Both the original and replacement apps were desktop applications. During development of the new apps, browser based applications became trendy and some of the developers really wanted to switch to browser-based. Fortunately, that shipped had sailed. Can you imagine writing business critical apps for the browser in 2002?!