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Thank you everyone for sharing your deep knowledge and great experience with OpenEdge with me. I had to deal with some problems coming up with current ERP so I haven't studied much on OE. I just came back and downloaded the classroom edition. From a very initial glance, OE acts different than others, such as Application Server is almost a "must have" ( our newly installed ERP has 2 AppServers), the ABL is funky, it acts more like an IDE than just a language. Our current ERP uses Providex, which has its own Advanced Business Logic language which we don't like ( easy to have exception ). Our new ERP vendor coded their software in 2 layers: the database side is ABL, the user interface is VB.NET. While I'm not qualified to say anything about how good(or not so good) about ABL, I feel the whole OE system architecture and deployment are more complex than software like Sql*server. it really feels good that I can get help from knowledgable people like you.

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