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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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How important the difference is between the two versions depends on what you want to do. You will find that a lot of the code from many Progress vendors came from Version 6 ... but it still works ... and that was from the late 80s. As Bill says, you can do all the development on a single Windows box. I would go for PDSOE, not the older product called Studio. There is now a free 11.6 version of this available as the Classroom edition of the OpenEdge Developers Kit. There is nothing to stop you writing and testing in 11.6 as long as you avoid new syntax and recognize that you will need to compile for the target market. The one hitch may be that this product includes PAS for OE, the newer (and better) version of the application server and I don't know what issues there might be about testing with it and porting back to classic AppServer. BTW, it is very common for Progress ISVs to say that they support only up to a certain version even though there is no reason the code won't run on the latest version. They don't want the trouble of testing an older version of their application against a new version of Progress. There are sometimes minor changes required, but often it is load and go. But, persuading them to let you can be a major problem.
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