Re: OS400 vs AIX -- MIDRANGE-L

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I don't believe Progress in an Open Source database. I worked for a company that developed their applications in Progress. (We're talking around 1990 😉). It's available by a perpetual or subscription license. It runs on a wide variety of platforms, but the last I understood it is not open source. (The company tried it on AS400--the AS400 was a really popular platform in the small and medium business world back then--yes, it was AS400 back then), but the performance was not acceptable. PASE wasn't as robust at the time.)

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

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message: 3
date: Thu, 18 May 2023 18:50:19 -0500
from: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: OS400 vs AIX

He has not had an ?AS/400? for quite some time.

As to reengineering to run in AIX, yes you can build a new application in one
of the languages that Eric pointed out earlier, but a better question is will the
application run on the open source databases available, I think Progress is
one of them.

Some more thinking needs to go on before a wholesale application
development etc. happens.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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