Progress

This powerful yet flexible programming language and database provides all of the security, data protection, and high availability capabilities required by mission-critical applications. Features such as backup (on-line and off-line) and restore, two-phase commit, roll-back, roll-forward and point-in-time recovery capabilities and automatic crash recovery, form an industrial-strength armor to protect your data. Virtually unlimited data storage, limited only by hardware.

Sophisticated self-tuning capabilities and simple graphical interfaces for system administration make the Enterprise RDBMS easier to install, tune and manage than other products. With low administration costs, low initial cost of licenses, minimum upgrade fees and limited software implementation costs, the Enterprise RDBMS provides a significant cost-of-ownership advantage - approximately four to one - over competing database products.

Progress utilizes the latest in Open, industry-standards. Application logic is accessible to virtually any client application including Java, ActiveX, and HTML. Robust SQL-92 data access, through native JDBC and ODBC drivers, opens up a new world of complementary third-party offerings.

Progress Software Quick Facts

1) The Progress Company, a global supplier of software technology and services for developing, deploying, integrating and managing e-Business solutions, and its partners, add over 12,000 new end-user sites and more than 600,000 end users every year.

2) The Progress Company's partners include more than 2,000 ISVs and ASPs who supply more than $5 billion in Progress-based applications and related services.

3) More than 70% of Fortune 100 companies use Progress Software-based solutions.

4) For the sixth consecutive year, the Aberdeen Group reports that the Progress Software database, when compared with Oracle and Microsoft, provides significantly lower cost of ownership.

5) Progress Software applications are used by more than 2 million people worldwide, second only to SAP.