I don't have positive confirmation about Solaris. But it appears in the platform lists in the v11 PAG and not in the v12 version so I
assume it is no longer supported, although I can't remember ever hearing an announcement on this. It is frustrating to me that Progress is not being up front about the things they no longer support. It feels to me like they are trying to sneak things past us and make the new version all about good news. I would like Progress to produce a comprehensive list of deprecated and de-supported features, instead of having to compile it myself. That's what the PAG is
supposed to provide.
Last year they were very cagey about future App Server support. I went to both major Progress conferences in North America last year and in neither roadmap session did they explicitly say they were discontinuing App Server. I had one-on-one conversations with PSC people who said they
thought that would happen, but obviously that's not the same thing as announcing it.
Given how widespread WebSpeed and App Server are, I thought they were very aggressive about killing them, in the span of four point releases:
- 11.5 (2014 Dec): PASOE introduced ("Pacific App Server" at the time)
Basically they said this was their next-gen app server, where they would be making their future development investments. "But the 'Classic' App Server you know and love will still be supported for some time to come."
- 11.6 (2015 Oct): You can now migrate WebSpeed apps to PASOE
- 11.7 (2017 Mar): PASOE bug fixes, fit-and-finish improvements
- 12.0 (2019 Mar): App Server gone
I understand PSC wants to save on development and support costs by trimming the product line, but I think these aggressive cuts will leave a lot of people stranded on 11.x, and cause others to migrate. Making less money from a client in the short term is a lot better than losing them permanently.