PROGRESS SOFTWARE JOINS ECLIPSE FOUNDATION AND INTRODUCES NEW ECLIPSE-BASED DEVELOPMENT TOOLS ACROSS MULTIPLE PRODUCT LINES

Pressemeddelelse september 28, 2005 IT

The new OpenEdge platform include Eclipse-Based IDE and Built-in Auditing Services

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 28, 2005 Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal platform for the creation, integration and utilization of software tools. At the same time, Progress announced the inclusion of Eclipse-based visual development tools in ProgressŽ OpenEdgeŽ 10.1 and current availability in the Progress Real Time Division product set. This commitment to tools independence complements Progress Softwares user interface (UI) and platform independence strategies.

Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and utilizing the same framework technology, tool producers can leverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new visual development technology. Progress Application Partners will be able to use the Eclipse-based visual development tools in OpenEdge 10.1 to more quickly and easily develop complex, componentized business applications for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).

'In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Progress Software continues to deliver on its long tradition of providing superior software products and services that empower our developer community to dramatically improve their productivity, simplifying the process of building, deploying and integrating modern business applications,” said Gordon Van Huizen, CTO of Progress Software Corporation. 'The Eclipse framework provides a rich, extensible and interoperable foundation for our new generation of visual tools. As a result, our new tools not only set the bar for rapid development of data-driven, highly scalable business applications, but natively work with hundreds of specialized third-party tools, giving developers the freedom to work with the toolset that makes sense for them.”

Progress Software is one of the first commercial software infrastructure vendors to have already delivered Eclipse technology in its product set with ProgressŽ EdgeXtendŽ, a distributed data access and caching software infrastructure offered by the Progress Real Time Division.  

About Eclipse
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, technology providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org.

PROGRESS INTRODUCES NEW OPENEDGE PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPING SERVICE ORIENTED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Eclipse-Based IDE and Built-in Auditing Services Just Some of the New Features
Delivering on Progress Commitment to Simplify Creating the Worlds Best Business Applications

The Progress OpenEdge Division, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation, launched the 26th of September the new OpenEdgeŽ 10.1 offering at its Progress Technology World event in Lisbon, Portugal to over 500 Progress end-user customers and Application Partners (APs).

Included in this latest release of OpenEdge is, besides the new Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), auditing services designed to address the compliance needs of finance, healthcare, and other industries traditionally affected by audit and compliance requirements.  Auditing is the first in a line of future OpenEdge application services that will make it easier for partners and customers to quickly construct business applications that comply with these mandates.

'Progress partners pride themselves on being industry experts, and we make it easier for them to build great applications that reflect that expertise,” said Niel Powers, vice president of products for the OpenEdge Division. 'OpenEdge 10.1 delivers on Progress commitment to take the complexities out of developing sophisticated, data-driven, highly scalable business applications built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  By providing better component services, improved language capabilities, and new tools using a standard open-source environment, our application partners can focus on the application functionality that is their core competency.”

Highlights of OpenEdgeŽ 10.1:

ˇNew development environment built on the industry standard Eclipse framework.  This new offering, OpenEdge Architect, is tailored to building applications using an architected, business-logic centric approach. This approach advances a developers ability to assemble service-oriented applications from a catalog of components and services, enabling them to deliver on business requirements more rapidly.

ˇBuilt-in connectivity to messaging and integration components from Sonic Software, another operating unit of Progress Software Corporation.  The combination of the OpenEdge business platform and the Sonic SOA suite allows developers to easily integrate OpenEdge applications with heterogeneous environments, whether across the enterprise or inter-enterprise.

ˇAuditing services at the application and database level are delivered as configurable services out of the box, saving developers a significant amount of effort. The auditing services extend the concept of security and audit integrity with mechanisms that ensure that the audit trails of transactions are themselves secure and tamper-proof.

ˇNew failover/failback capabilities, combined with more online administration capabilities and streamlining of routine maintenance tasks allow for more control of the data management environment and ensure higher availability of business systems and data.

ˇNew language constructs and mechanisms designed to make it easier to design and implement reusable service components for faster and easier construction of service-oriented applications.

ˇUnlike other technologies that require resource-intensive migration paths, Progress maintains its commitment to simplifying the delivery of business applications by enabling APs and customers to easily move existing applications forward, giving them all the benefits of all the latest features with minimal effort.

'The incorporation of the Eclipse IDE into the OpenEdge environment extends our longstanding commitment to platform and user interface flexibility, as well as support for industry standards,” said Powers.  'As always, were concentrating on getting the technology right, so that our partners and customers can focus on getting the applications right.”

About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a global industry leader providing application infrastructure software for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications through its operating units: Progress OpenEdge Division, Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and Progress Real Time Division. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

About the Progress OpenEdge Division
The Progress OpenEdge Division provides a complete and integrated platform that simplifies the development, deployment, integration, and management of the world's best business applications. Two thousand Application Partners offer more than 5,000 OpenEdge-based business applications that precisely fit customer needs with the lowest total cost of ownership. Annually, customers purchase more than $5 billion in OpenEdge-based software and services. Progress OpenEdge is an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global software industry leader.

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