Oh, if I neglected to say, while the language was fairly simple, the IDE (they have utilities you can purchase for better IDEs) does not compare to VFP. Hopefully it has improved.


>Thanks for the info.
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>>Yes, we used ODBC to connect to it from VFP. The Progress development language was not too difficult either if I remember correctly. I remember using a lot of FOR...EACH and brackets, keywords, etc.
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>>>Tracy,
>>>Thanks for the reply. Did you do any development with it's built in language? Wondering how it compares to VFP. I'm a long time VFP developer, but I've never seen any Progress code at all. I'm assuming that as a backend for VFP, it would be a more or less standard ODBC type situation.
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>>>Gary
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>>>>I ran a Progress server for 2 years with virtually no administration (I'm ashamed to say). Never had any problems. I haven't used it for over a year though...(switched employers).
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>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>Has anyone had any experiance using VFP against a Progress backend? We are considering moving away from our current backend and Progress is being considered as well as SQL Server. Some of the team seems to have the impression that Progress needs almost no administration. Any experiance with Progress out there? Thanks.
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>>>>>Gary