From PSDN:
What’s Coming in Progress OpenEdge 10.1A
Progress OpenEdge 10.1A is the next in a series of releases aimed at making it easier to develop, deploy, integrate and manage OpenEdge business applications. Simply put, the new capabilities added in 10.1A help OpenEdge customers meet client needs in an increasingly competitive market. OpenEdge 10.1a includes a new integrated development environment. The new IDE is compatible with the 4GL and the OpenEdge database, and will work with most existing applications. The new IDE is based on the industry standard Eclipse platform, with a “plug-in” strategy that is common in the industry. It will significantly upgrade the look, feel, and behavior of our development environment.
Progress is committed to providing an IDE which makes it easy to organize the development of an OpenEdge application and manage it through the entire application development lifecycle. The IDE will re-enforce the best practices and guidelines embodied by the OpenEdge Reference Architecture. Additionally, business logic tools will be provided that will simplify the process of building business applications using the 4GL. Addressing architecture throughout the development process will deliver tremendous productivity increases and ensure that the end product is not only rapidly constructed, but well constructed as well.
Auditing is another important capability added in 10.1A. Auditing provides customers with an uninterrupted trail of access to operations and data. This capability helps companies meet the regulatory compliance mandates of such legislation as Sarbanes Oxley and Basel II among others.
Other important 10.1A benefits include higher productivity through installation and configuration enhancements, RDBMS performance and high availability enhancements, simplified installation for the SonicMQ and Sonic ESB Adapters, simplified deployment of OpenEdge Management, fail-back support for OpenEdge Replication, and Linux 64-bit platform support. Important language enhancements are also being introduced including those in ProDataSets, XML support, and object-oriented extensions. Such enhancements make it possible for people to have a language that is as powerful and easy to use in developing new distributed, service-oriented applications, as the original language did for host-based applications.
The product is currently in beta and early returns indicate that OpenEdge 10.1A meets the goal of simplifying the job of developing, deploying, integrating and managing OpenEdge business applications.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Job Opening at Nike
I received an email from Terry Shannahan yesterday. He is moving to another job, so Nike is looking for someone to fill his shoes.
The job will be supporting the one remaining Progress application for about a year. It is character and on Unix (Sun). If the person also knows IBM mainframe COBOL, that would be a plus as they could help support another system. I don't know what will happen to this person after the Progress app is gone.
If you want more information, you can contact Terry directly:
Terry G. Shannahan
Office: 503.532.7644
Cell: 503.423.7596
tshannahan@hotmail.com
The job will be supporting the one remaining Progress application for about a year. It is character and on Unix (Sun). If the person also knows IBM mainframe COBOL, that would be a plus as they could help support another system. I don't know what will happen to this person after the Progress app is gone.
If you want more information, you can contact Terry directly:
Terry G. Shannahan
Office: 503.532.7644
Cell: 503.423.7596
tshannahan@hotmail.com
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Webspeed Licensing
Many of you may have read on the PEG about Webspeed licensing being seriously messed up. From what I could find out, if you are currently on a concurrent user license, you will still be able to use that model for Webspeed. New customers can have the problem - where basically Progress wants named users for every possible user that could hit your webspeed app. Even though you could get 500,000 different people hitting your app but only 100 at a time, they still want you to buy 500,000 licenses.
Yes, it's messed up. I plan on asking more about this when I'm back there in January and will let you know what I find.
Yes, it's messed up. I plan on asking more about this when I'm back there in January and will let you know what I find.
Friday, November 11, 2005
Welcome to the Oregon Progress Users Group!
Thought I might try this for a Users Group website. Might work, might not. :)
What's up with the group?
Well, not much. Things are moving much slower than I thought they would. A few years ago at a mini-TechPeak with about 40 people in attendance, pretty much everyone raised their hands high when asked if they wanted to restart the users group. We've had 4 official meetings this year and at most we had 6 people attend. Maybe I'm not doing my job as President well enough.
In January 2006 I will be heading back to Bedford for a PUG Presidents meeting at Progress. Hopefully I'll learn some good ideas for getting our group going better.
As for meetings, I was trying to do one meeting every quarter, but that hasn't seemed to work well. I think one problem is where we are meeting, which has been my office. I really believe people would like to meet somewhere, a nice restaurant, pub, etc, where they can have some food and drink (beer, wine, soda, etc). The problem with that is we have no money to reserve anywhere. Just having a meeting in the middle of the restaurant wouldn't work well. I know some groups only have one formal meeting a year, right after Exchange. Maybe we need to go to that instead?
Some groups also charge dues and some don't. I would like to mainly so we can afford to meet places. We would have corporate memberships of like $200/year, and individual memberships of like $25/year. For the corporate memberships, anyone at the company could attend. We would never say if you aren't a paid member you can't attend. What being a paid member gets you is the ability to take part in raffles, discounts on training and Exchange, things like that. For example, if we had a lot of people who wanted to take a certain class, we could probably get Progress to come out here for free and give it. Members would get a discount on the class, non-members pay full price. Other groups have said this works well for them.
I have also been having little gatherings each month in between our formal meetings just as a way for people to talk about Progress, computers, users, cars, the weather, whatever. These were not anything formal. However, I think people were seeing these as a "meeting", and thus not showing up to the real meeting. SO, from now on, I will still be doing this, but they will simply be me wanting to go to a nice pub, have some food, beer, and anyone is welcome to join me. We will probably talk about Progress since that's our common bond, but we'll also talk about all kinds of other things. We won't really be talking about the users group at all, though it might come up.
I'll be going to Exchange again in 2006. We will have a formal meeting after Exchange for me (and anyone else who went) to share what went on, what new things are coming, what were the big topics, etc.
If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, etc, about the users group, please let me know! I'm here not as a dictator but a facilitator, to make this users group work the way YOU want it to work. Whatever you would like, I am more than happy to do everything I can to make it happen.
Later!
Rich
What's up with the group?
Well, not much. Things are moving much slower than I thought they would. A few years ago at a mini-TechPeak with about 40 people in attendance, pretty much everyone raised their hands high when asked if they wanted to restart the users group. We've had 4 official meetings this year and at most we had 6 people attend. Maybe I'm not doing my job as President well enough.
In January 2006 I will be heading back to Bedford for a PUG Presidents meeting at Progress. Hopefully I'll learn some good ideas for getting our group going better.
As for meetings, I was trying to do one meeting every quarter, but that hasn't seemed to work well. I think one problem is where we are meeting, which has been my office. I really believe people would like to meet somewhere, a nice restaurant, pub, etc, where they can have some food and drink (beer, wine, soda, etc). The problem with that is we have no money to reserve anywhere. Just having a meeting in the middle of the restaurant wouldn't work well. I know some groups only have one formal meeting a year, right after Exchange. Maybe we need to go to that instead?
Some groups also charge dues and some don't. I would like to mainly so we can afford to meet places. We would have corporate memberships of like $200/year, and individual memberships of like $25/year. For the corporate memberships, anyone at the company could attend. We would never say if you aren't a paid member you can't attend. What being a paid member gets you is the ability to take part in raffles, discounts on training and Exchange, things like that. For example, if we had a lot of people who wanted to take a certain class, we could probably get Progress to come out here for free and give it. Members would get a discount on the class, non-members pay full price. Other groups have said this works well for them.
I have also been having little gatherings each month in between our formal meetings just as a way for people to talk about Progress, computers, users, cars, the weather, whatever. These were not anything formal. However, I think people were seeing these as a "meeting", and thus not showing up to the real meeting. SO, from now on, I will still be doing this, but they will simply be me wanting to go to a nice pub, have some food, beer, and anyone is welcome to join me. We will probably talk about Progress since that's our common bond, but we'll also talk about all kinds of other things. We won't really be talking about the users group at all, though it might come up.
I'll be going to Exchange again in 2006. We will have a formal meeting after Exchange for me (and anyone else who went) to share what went on, what new things are coming, what were the big topics, etc.
If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, etc, about the users group, please let me know! I'm here not as a dictator but a facilitator, to make this users group work the way YOU want it to work. Whatever you would like, I am more than happy to do everything I can to make it happen.
Later!
Rich
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