1 Progress Software’s OpenEdge Platform Which database is right for your environment? Simon Epps

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) Complete platform for the world’s best business applications Progress Software Corporation Operating Units Develop, Deploy, Integrate & Manage

3 Progress Without Compromise The customer receives applications that precisely fit their business needs Our partners transform their industry expertise into award winning solutions We simplify the job of creating the world’s best business applications

4 The Progress® OpenEdge® community  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

5 Progress Drives Productivity Everywhere 10 of the top 10:Auto and parts manufacturers Food companies Commercial banks Aerospace and defense companies Chemical companies 8 of the top 10: 7 of the top 10:Beverage companies Pharmaceuticals Medical equipment companies

6 The OpenEdge platform Database Applications Application Framework Integration Services Application Server Data Management Client Processing Business Processing Analytical Processing Management & Security Development Tools 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 Flexibility: the most open platform available with support for.NET, Java™, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, ODBC, and JDBC Productivity: the OpenEdge toolset is highly Reliability: the world’s leading embedded database (IDC) purposed for defining business logic Value: more cost effective than Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle from development through deployment and maintenance (Aberdeen)

7 Progress Software’s OpenEdge Platform  A platform for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing business applications  OpenEdge® 10 SCO UnixWare SCO OpenServer 6  Progress® Version 9 on SCO UnixWare SCO Open Unix SCO OpenServer 5

8 OpenEdge RDBMS Scalability Deployment & Management:  Scale out  Replication - db (block) & row (trigger)  N-tier (AppServer & WebSpeed)  Integration (Sonic SOA & ESB)  Scale up  Small footprint (memory & disk)  Multi threaded & OS aware  Before & After Image log journals  Connection pooling & Page Writers  Misc  Performance – How long is a piece of string?  Real World – 1000 commits / 10,000 concurrent users Data Management that you’ll never outgrow and that never requires administration

9 OpenEdge RDBMS Availability Deployment & Management: Clustering  Application Load balancing  Database Shared Disk Failover  Administration  Enterprise utilities (OPTIONAL)  On-line everything  Auditing & Security  Storage options:  Performance and/or Disk usage  16 PetaByte or 2 Billion rows Data Management that you’ll never outgrow and that never requires administration

10 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  Options  Personal / Workgroup / Enterprise  Unicode, UTF-8 support  Registered user / Named user / Concurrent User / CPU Price-Of-Application / Agent based / Machine based Data Management that you’ll never outgrow and that never requires administration

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