Hi Ricardo;
I am of the opposite opinion - EOL PB.Net all together. Here are a few thoughts:
1) PB Classic IDE is still way better in many areas (except Intellisense) - but, that could easily be improved with an AutoScript facelift,
2) PB.Net only has a 5% adoption according to the 2014 PB survey. 90+% of current PB Developers still use and plan to use PB Classic (according to the 2014 PB survey) only.
3) WPF is DOA now. Even my VS friends have dropped using it (not to mention my Canadian Government Clients). What was hot 5+ years ago is now passé!
4) 51% of all applications world wide are J2EE based. PB Classic can already do J2EE interoperability (have a look at the "create javavm" in PB Classic). It should be extended in that direction. Only 41% of IT shops world wide use .Net.
5) Most users and IT shops want Web Solutions not another native C/S application (aka WPF).
6) The direction for application development now is Web and Mobile - which PB.Net gives you no path. Whereas PB Classic + Appeon does it all.
7) What PB developers need is both J2EE and .Net interoperability - not another "silo" IDE to try and achieve that. PB Classic has being doing .NET before PB.Net was even written. SAP just needs to add WCF to Classic.
8) PB.Net still can not do important things like proper OLE, PSR, PipeLines, etc
9) Maintaining 2 IDE's would be a waste of Engineering IMHO. Lets get back to what has always worked and that most developers use ... Classic. Take the R&D monies from dropping PB.Net and reinvest it in PB Classic. A much better ROI from my perspective.
10) SAP needs to get focus on what Appeon is doing in the Web and Mobile space. Appron only supports PB Classic.
11) Add JSP support back into PB Classic (it was there).
12) Add JScript to PB's PowerScripting.
13) The cost of fixing PB.Net's buggyness - not to mention the R&D expense and time - would not make new or seasoned PB developers use the product.
14) Quite a few DataWindow features are still not available in PB.Net that are working in PB Classic. Just add the graph types from PB.Net to PB Classic.
etc, etc
Regards ... Chris