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Marian, Now that MS is porting Visual C++ to Linux(1), there maybe more emphasis on Progress putting their GUI on Linux. I say this NOT because they need Visual C++, but the are, well, not a "first mover," they wait until something is in the majority (2). Something about profitability I am sure. I don't think we will ever see Progress become a first mover. Add to that, Linux is always changing their GUI (as well the battle between Gnome, KDE, etc.) Which does Progress to jump on to? There are already training needed for telnet/et al clients - just wait until the customer needs to get X Windows running? (There are freebies for Windows though.) Personally I see getting out of the MS world is the web and mobile. GUI is already showing it's weaknesses (need a run time on the machine, need to know IP addresses of databases, need to know size of client machines for -B, etc.) The web or mobile? Give em a password and a URL and they are in. Progress making Mobile computing a rental for development? I think that was a mistake. I was gung ho on mobile apps with Progress until I found out ya need to rent the environment. (1) blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/.../ (2) ondigitalmarketing.com/.../
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