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Is there any way to download a trial of dataserver on windows for SQL? We already have a number of Progress development-related licenses such as PDSOE and workgroup database and progress appserver. It would be nice to try out dataserver before moving ahead with it and including it in our licenses. We are a mixed shop using both OE databases and SQL. Our Microsoft .Net programs can connect to either types of database (OE or SQL Server) but the ABL programs are very limited and can only connect to certain types of resources including the local file system, the OE database, they can run OS-COMMAND, and get at a couple more resources to boot. But we've often had the need to go further and make LDAP queries or SQL Server connections from ABL but are currently unable to do so. Aside from the need to review performance, there are a number of other reasons why Progress customers may want to try dataserver before buying it. The ongoing maintenance of the "schema-holder" sounds like it will have a learning curve and may not be straightforward (ie. on the other side of this story, when I'm writing a .Net program to connect to the Progress database, its not necessary for me to create and manage a "schema-holder" in .Net to shadow all the tables and fields available in an OE database). Finally, certain longtime consultants for Progress have only negative things to say about MS Dataserver. I'm not sure if the reasoning is because the product is immature or has a small user base or is buggy. I should note that Progress consultants sometimes get a fair amount of their work by supporting OE databases (ie paid for adding new database extents) so there may be some bias which would make them uncomfortable to hear that their customers are moving some of their data into SQL Server.
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