Yes, EAS's feature rich environment is very hard to fully emulate in IIs. Only when you have worked with EAS extensively like I have (and taught the PB/EAS courses) do you realize how robust this combination are. Of course, Sybase only killed DPB to force people to buy EA$. If we still had DPB today, it could easily whip EAS in performance as it was a pure C++ execution model vs EAS's Java Bean emulation wrapper around NVUO's that we see today.
Note: Older EAS's treated NVUO's directly as C++ objects.
FWIW: Well have to see what Armeen's detailed application architecture is in the next set of Webinars to see exactly what his VS plug-in vision contains, how this can move the PB product forward and the time frames expected.