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Technology Stocks : Progress Software

PRGS 42.29

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Nov 7 9:30 AM EST

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To: LuckyStar who wrote (113)	1/17/1997 6:21:00 PM
From: Larry Leeth	of 296

RE: PRGS vs. ORACLE I am a software developer at QAD, Inc. We have over 5 million lines of code written in Progress. We port this same code to ORACLE DB's (accounts for about 20% of our new business). But we (and virtually everyone else who developms for a Progress DB) use the Progress 4GL, NOT PROGRESS SQL!!! I have been extremely interested in PSC's technical direction and the functionality of recent releases. If we didn't have a mountain of legacy code, I would be "on the fence" re: staying with Progress. The "event model" of development is fairly good for GUI, and their "Smart Objects) have some nice features. They have a decent technical vision, but very poor Marketing. That's why I would be very favorable to a MSFT aquisition. If anybody knows abaout marketing software, it's Microsoft (of course ORACLE is not far behind).

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