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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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Rethinking usage patterns the AJAX way
AJAX (Asynchronous Java Script & XML) has brought us Gmail, Google Maps and Flickr and gives web developers an exciting new toolbox of tricks that can drastically overhaul the...
The next frontier: XQuery Updates
XQuery has achieved Candidate Recommendation and I think it's safe to say that many individuals, organizations and vested interests are working hard to make sure it reaches Recommendation as smoothly as possible.
With this significant milestone achieved, Jonathan Robie, the Progress DataDirect W3C...
DataDirect Delivers the Only Certified JDBC Drivers for JBoss
I am very pleased to announce a significant advancement for anyone who works with JBoss and are rightly considering how to connect to their data sources, using the best-of-breed JDBC drivers. I think John Goodson, VP for Product Operations and Marketing at Progress DataDirect sums it up...
Persistence Stew II: JDBC - The Indispensable Component of Persistence Mechanisms
A few weeks back, I worked feverishly to get an article ready for the November 2005 edition of the Sys-con's Java Developer Journal, or as many people refer to it, the JDJ. Check out your pigeon hole mailbox, or head to JDJ...
Persistence Stew: JDBC Drivers
Our friends at JavaLobby were very gracious in working with me to produce an excellent online presentation on how the best-of-class JDBC drivers is the only choice for anyone considering Java Object/Relational persistence mechanisms. This is an important consideration for anyone dipping their toes...
Recent Article RoundUp
As one of the Progam Manager's here at DataDirect, I get to participate in our excellent Design Preview series that travels the country giving you our customers the opportunity to ask questions, but also my fellow Program Managers get the opportunity to get the feedback we need to build out our...
XQuery launches for the Java Platform
Jonathan Robie, the XQuery Language Program Manager at DataDirect, Jonathan Robie has some important news over on his...
The next computing paradigm: P2P?
The growth of VOIP is difficult to miss these days - I can't think of one major software or internet entity that is not doing something in this area. Most recently the launch of Google Talk last week triggered volumes of opinions across many technology outlets - in fact this blog posts track-backs to...
VS 2003 and upcoming .NET Framework 2.0
I'm installing Visual Studio 2003 for the first time, and while I'm impressed by the look and feel, this is probably the longest installation I have ever endured.
Coming from the Java world, I...
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