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So they don't give you access to a different set of developer tools? And there are no extra features that require a secret, ISV-only decoder-ring to unlock? It seemed that Progress was shrugging off any decreases in revenue from enterprise-direct customers. They said something self-evident ... they said something like "we don't have control" over the use of individual OE applications within the enterprise. But it seems that this would be no different in the case of ISV's ... if anything Progress would have even less control over the success of applications produced by ISV's since there are extra layers of indirection between Progress and the end-users of those ISV applications. Assuming there is nothing different in the OpenEdge products themselves, how does Progress earn the special loyalty of the ISV developers? They don't seem too concerned about any corresponding loss of revenue on the ISV side. But I can't think of what substantial difference there would be in the OE tools, the OE developers, or the OE-based applications. I don't see why a loss of revenue on one side can be shrugged off like it isn't at all relevant to their OpenEdge business as a whole.
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