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dbeavon
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Phil, I enjoyed reading your list on how to evangelize the Progress development tools to the younger generation. Another point quickly came to mind. (7) Make Progress use OE internally. Use it for all internal systems, even mission-critical ones. If OE is the platform to build mission-critical business systems, then Progress needs to lead by example, and show us how its done. Progress should be using it to meet all its own internal business needs. How can any company sell software development tools to the world without dogfooding. Based on my observations, it seems very doubtful that Progress uses OE to build all its own internal systems (ERP, CRM, Customer Support interface, etc). I'd love to be proven wrong. I regularly run into a lot of frustrating issues in the OE development tool-chain. Just look at the biggest gaps for starters: No code analysis tools to analyze xref output, no tools for building and packaging and deploying apps, extremely slow single-threaded compilation of code in PDSOE, poor OO refactoring tools, and poor admin tools such as promon which look like they were built a lifetime ago. I think Progress has to commit to hearing and fixing developer stories, and that can be expedited if Progress would use the tools themselves and then show us all the results.
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