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Progress Software’s OpenEdge Platform
Which database
is right for your
environment?
Simon Epps
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Progress Software Corporation
Operating Units
Develop, Deploy, Integrate & Manage
Complete platform for
the world’s best business applications
The leading provider of components
for connecting software to data
Real-time data management, access
and synchronization products
Inventor and leading provider of the
enterprise service bus (ESB)
Progress Without Compromise
We simplify the job of creating the
world’s best business applications
Our partners transform their industry
expertise into award winning solutions
The customer receives applications
that precisely fit their business needs
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The Progress® OpenEdge® community
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More than 2,000 Application Partners
5,000 distinct applications
600,000 new users a year
used by over 5 million people worldwide
More than 50% of the Fortune 500
nearly 70% of Fortune 100 companies
$5 billion annual revenue
5 year costs:
 1/10 of Oracle & 1/2 of MS SQL Server
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Progress Drives
Productivity Everywhere
10 of the top 10:
Auto and parts manufacturers
Food companies
8 of the top 10:
Commercial banks
Aerospace and defense companies
Chemical companies
7 of the top 10:
Beverage companies
Pharmaceuticals
Medical equipment companies
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The OpenEdge platform Database
Flexibility: the most open platform available
with support for .NET, Java™, XML, Oracle,
SQL Server, ODBC, and JDBC
Application Framework
Client
Business
Analytical
Processing Processing Processing
Integration Services
Application Server
Management & Security
Value: more cost effective than Microsoft, IBM,
or Oracle from development through
deployment and maintenance (Aberdeen)
Development Tools
Productivity: the OpenEdge toolset is highly
Reliability: the world’s leading embedded
database (IDC) purposed for defining business
logic
Applications
Data Management
Progress RDBMS leads the market with low cost of
ownership and the ability to scale to meet the
demands of business # 1 Embedded Database - IDC
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Progress Software’s OpenEdge Platform
 A platform for developing,
deploying, integrating, and
managing business applications
 OpenEdge® 10
SCO UnixWare 7.1.4
SCO OpenServer 6
 Progress® Version 9 on
SCO UnixWare
SCO Open Unix
SCO OpenServer 5
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OpenEdge RDBMS Scalability
Deployment & Management:
 Scale out
 Replication - db (block) & row (trigger)
 N-tier (AppServer & WebSpeed)
 Integration (Sonic SOA & ESB)
 Scale up
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Small footprint (memory & disk)
Multi threaded & OS aware
Before & After Image log journals
Connection pooling & Page Writers
Data Management
that you’ll never
outgrow and that
never requires
administration
 Misc
 Performance – How long is a piece of string?
 Real World – 1000 commits / sec @ 10,000 concurrent users
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OpenEdge RDBMS Availability
Deployment & Management:
• Clustering
 Application Load balancing
 Database Shared Disk Failover
 Administration
 Enterprise utilities (OPTIONAL)
 On-line everything
 Auditing & Security
Data Management
that you’ll never
outgrow and that
never requires
administration
 Storage options:
 Performance and/or Disk usage
 16 PetaByte or 2 Billion rows
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OpenEdge RDBMS Details
Deployment & Management:
 Platform independence
 Client (Shared memory & remote)
 4GL, ODBC, JDBC
 Hardware
 CPU, Hyper-threading, Visualization
 Operating System
 Optimized for 32/64
 SCO, Win, HP, IBM, Sun, Linux x86
Data Management
that you’ll never
outgrow and that
never requires
administration
 Options
 Personal / Workgroup / Enterprise
 Unicode, UTF-8 support
 Registered user / Named user / Concurrent User / CPU
Price-Of-Application / Agent based / Machine based
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Questions?
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For More Information
Complete platform for
the world’s best business applications
www.sco.com/solutions
Keywords: Progress
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