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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Info wanted on PROGRESS DBMS
Message-ID: <170@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 23:38:26 GMT
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->Hi!  I am looking at various RDBMS and have come across mention of a product 
->called "Progress" (which is also the name of the company, I believe).  I
->understand that it's multi-platform and runs under Unix and DOS (at least).
->Has anyone had any experience actually *using* this system?  Is it any good?
->Is it easy to use?  How big of an application can it handle?  Is the language
->sane and/or rational to use (please... no COBOL!)?

Yeah, I have written various financial systems in Progress off and on over the 
last 5 years.   Other experience: C, Informix, Btrieve, etc.  I think it is a
great system for applications.   It is portable; (DOS/Unix/BTOS/CTOS/VMS..and
soon AS/400 arrg!...)  It provides a strong procedural language which is fairly
straight forward to use.   It gives you transaction scoping and automatic 
backout, which is REALLY handy for financial systems.  It has a real strong 
data dictionary, allowing relation integrity checks to be specified there i
instead of in code.   Please be more specific about  HOW BIG... I wrote a 
complete General Ledger (30 modules), my wife wrote a time accounting and billing
system for law firms; we never found a size restriction.   Now I will note that
the indexing is all garden variety B+ tree stuff.  So on REAL big databases
you will run into the standard unix indirect I-node nonsense.  It does not 
have a raw-partition capability like Unify. 

But I think it is ok.. gimme a poke if ya want to know more...

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