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JonathanWilson
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Why is Progress hard? Because it's pay-walled, It's not a native lightweight HTML environment. No one sets out now to build a new App that requires licensing if they've a choice. When people know something really well; they'll stick with it, but new people won't learn it, if they quite literally have to buy into it. Open Source is now feature complete when compared to the licence based RDBMS products from any major vendor. As a Progress programmer and DBA the read consistency implementation with SHARE-LOCK/NO-LOCK/EXCLUSIVE-LOCK is a mess compared to SQL based it's point-in-time queries using "UNDO" / "ROLLBACK". In Progress you have to plan when to look at the data to see it in a read consistence state or just lock the table PRESELECT SHARE-LOCK, great fun for an OLTP environment. The RDBMS engine in Progress is showing it's age and needs some love; I don't need a sexy UI if the data is difficult to manipulate. Triggers are broken, client must have copies of the code??? Can't believe it is still an issue with the ABL.
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