"Progress Software Corp., a supplier of technology for building
e-business solutions, today announced plans to release the source
code of its Application Development Environment (ADE) under an open
source licensing model. Through the Progress Open Source Software
Exchange (POSSE), the company and its development community will
collaborate to enhance, extend and create more powerful tools for
building e-business applications. Developers who are interested in
participating in POSSE will be able to register at www.possenet.org
starting December 18, 2000."
"Using the Progress 4GL, approximately 2,000 Progress
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have built and deployed over
5,000 applications for more than 100,000 customer sites around the
world. POSSE will provide this community with the opportunity to
influence the strategic direction of the development environment
they use to build business applications. Participants will be able
to add functionality, obtain immediate access to subject experts,
trouble-shoot and submit patches, and promote their own expertise
in a forum of their peers."
