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Part 1: Getting Started with Progress’ RAG-as-a-Service Platform, Progress Agentic RAG
October 13, 2025
Enterprise knowledge management is broken. Critical insights get buried in email threads, brilliant analysis disappears into network drives and teams unknowingly duplicate work that was completed months earlier. The promise of AI-powered search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) offers a solution—but how does it work in practice? Read our blog to find out.
Built for Business, Loved by Developers: Progress OpenEdge ABL
October 16, 2025
Progress OpenEdge ABL is a business-focused, fourth-generation language that enables rapid, reliable and scalable development of mission-critical applications, making it a trusted and future-ready choice for organizations and developers.
Introducing Automate MFT: Modern File Transfer Built for Hybrid and Distributed IT Ecosystems
October 08, 2025
We're thrilled to introduce Progress Automate MFT—a first-of-its-kind cloud-native orchestration engine explicitly built for automated, secure file transfer. Is a cloud-native file transfer solution at the top of your wish list? Let’s dive into the details that make Automate MFT the right solution for your enterprise.
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ADO.NET Provider Writer Sessions, Redmond, WA
I am spending most of this week to attending the ADO.NET Provider Writer Tech Preview at Microsoft's Campus in Redmond, WA. While it looks like I will be dodging the searing heat on the east coast, I nonetheless expect some very lively sessions based on the make up of the attendees that I understand...
Netbeans v Eclipse... The Reg gets it right
"Sun: We're happy with Eclipse, honest..." the headline on The Register's RSS feed caught my attention this morning. While I have never been intimately involved with either the evolutions of Netbeans or Eclipse it has nevertheless been hard to duck...
The Britt, Pablo and Mike Show - Brought to you by Channel 9
This is a great video from Channel 9 in a very informal session with Britt Johnston, Pablo Castro and Mike Pizzo that is definitely worth a look. It looks like it was filmed in Pablo's office in Building 35 in Redmond, WA.
Pablo and Mike do a great job responding to some of the questions and queries...
Recharging the batteries and mid-year perspective
I am back to a sweltering east coast after a trip back to Ireland, where the weather was unusually warm, sunny and generally resplendent full of summer color. The ability to head back to where I grew up seems to allow me to catch my breath, and take stock.
At the mid-way point in the calendar year...
Must attend: ADO.NET Provider Writer Tech Preview
Just spotted this: David Sceppa, ADO.NET Program Manager has posted an announcement describing a must attend Tech Preview running from Monday, July 31st to Wednesday, August 2nd. This should be an excellent together of all the major leaders in the...
Ridiculousness of JavaOne reviews ratings...
Cross Post from Java.Net
So although this year was the first year that I missed in string of successive JavaOne's, I thought I would share a recent email exchange from one my compatriots in the Java community...
WinFS rolled into ADO.NET vNext
Today seems a significant announcement from the WinFS team. See here. for details. Changing the delivery vehicle for a component that generated as much attention as WinFS can't have been an easy decision, but given the recent...
WebRowSet makes a return
Much of my attention, and rightly so has been focused on ADO.NET vNext and the halo effect it is generated since we had it's coming out party during Tech Ed 2006.
Every so often you see a technology although established in terms of the fact...
ADO.NET vNext Material Available
A short post today. As we all know after a week on the road re-entry into the daily business of producing great software can be tough! Alex Barnett of Microsoft pinged me today to highlight that there is lots of great material to sink your teeth into. Over the next coming weeks, I expect to be...
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