I dealt the Progress from about 2003 to 2008 or so. They were an absolute horrible company to work with and essentially held us hostage on an old platform becau

I dealt the Progress from about 2003 to 2008 or so. They were an absolute horrible company to work with and essentially held us hostage on an old platform because we refused to pay an exorbitant "platform change fee". And by exorbitant, I mean HUGE. Fortunately, we sponsored an open source OpenEdge ABL and DB replacement project (FWD - https://www.beyondabl.com https://www.beyondabl.com) and have been running our converted project very successfully since 2009. We went from OpenEdge / Progress DB to Java / PostgreSQL in an automated way. For anyone else held hostage by Progress Software because of your reliance on Progress 4GL (OpenEdge ABL) I encourage you to take a look. Perhaps the company itself has improved since then. I certainly (for Chef's sake) hope so.