Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), formerly Data Language Corporation, is an American software company that sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the OpenEdge ABL (formerly known as Progress 4GL), which was developed in the early 1980s. The best known application written in (on) Progress is MFG/PRO (from QAD Inc). Progress's headquarters are in Bedford. The company is composed of four operating units: Progress OpenEdge Division, Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and Progress Real Time Division. According to Xensys Corporation, Progress Software maintains in house consultants to develop and launch its products, in addition to working with Progress consulting companies, or vendors. Progress Software was co-founded under the name Data Language Corporation by several MIT graduates, including Joseph W. Alsop, in 1981.

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