Casper said:
Hi Ach,
I think you fail to see that Progress is still growing and Progress is a good product. Where I live (in Holland) Progress is pretty big. We get new customers from other platforms so we are able to compete with products like Oracle.
If you're talking about rewriting in .Net en webbased application then you probably haven't been around for a while in the Progress community, otherwise you would know that it's fairly easy to create webbased environments with Progress. Same aplies for making a .net front-end on existing Progress applications. So don't see your point. I know plenty of Progress Application Partners but none of them is thinking of rewriting their application into some other language. You have statistical proof of that?
I think the comments given here where objective and true. So no big NO and no big Yes, it all depends on the situation you're in.
I agree that it's always wise to learn other languages as well. But that doesn't apply only if you are a Progress Programmer.
Casper.
Casper:
I have been (sorry, had been) in Progress community for about 12 years before I switched my career. I don't know about Holland but I am in US and I worked for a mother company that wrote a Progress based application. Along with them, I know 2 other mother companies (Progress Application Vendors) that are moving out of Progress. As for the statistics, what statistical proof can be given until their migration is done? The statistics that can be revealed is .. Check the no. of customers the biggest Progress application vendor has worldwide (ever since they started) and compare that to the no. of customers SAP gets (no. of installations) in TWO years just in US. Get the point?
..and don't ask me the name of the biggest Progress application vendor, otherwise you have not been around for a while.
By the way, is Progress big in Holland because there are not enough big companies who can afford to buy more successfull applications because they are more expensive
?
As for Progress being web based, I know about Webspeed but you are not getting the point here. I also said earlier that there will be many answers from people like you who will disagree with me, didn't I say that?
Mukeshdel..if you believe in taking your career decisions based on what answers you get on a Users Forum, I don't know what to say. You should treat these answers (including mine) as a result of different knowledge sets, experiences, analysis but not to take your own decisions. There are other ways to find out about things too. Since you are in India, check it out in India. Check out the major job sites for India, see no. of jobs coming up. See how many companies use Progress. Talk to recruiters (not to get a job but because recruiters only deal with the major market), talk to successfull people in IT industry. Having mentioned recruiters, in US most recruiters haven't heard about Progress. If the market is good in India (which I find difficult to believe as I have seen people trying to move out of Progress there also after being there for years), then go fot it.
Like I said, take your own decision. I personally agree with comments of Lee Curzon.