OpenEdge Developers Kit FAQ

The OpenEdge Developers Kit (OEDK) provides development, deployment and testing tools, plus support, that fits your business model.  By choosing the affordable subscription model that best fits your licensing needs, you’ll reduce development costs for your business. The editions are as follows: 

1. Classroom – Designed for aspiring developers eager to make an impact and prepare for the corporate application market. The Classroom Edition expands students’ knowledge of business-critical applications, while introducing them to the easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, rapid and robust OpenEdge development platform.
   
2. Basic – Designed for independent developers requiring more support during freelance contracts or specific development projects. This low-cost edition entitles access to selected supported version of Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge (PDSOE), a small testing environment, online support ticketing, and access to the OpenEdge Knowledge Network (The Hub), a comprehensive database of all OpenEdge technical online resources.
   
3. Corporate – Supports the needs of large IT departments found in enterprise customers. In addition to the development environment, it provides multi-user testing environments and standard Tech Support.
   
4. Premier – Provides everything our Application Partners need to build and maintain critical business applications and support the many customers running those applications. It is also ideal for Service Delivery Partners that provide consulting services to Progress partners and enterprise customers. These organizations have multiple development teams working on many projects across different environments and on various versions of Progress OpenEdge.
   
5. Innovator Edition – Created for R&D specialists within development organizations who seek to evolve their business applications to meet current business and user demands such as cloud or mobile deployment, extending APIs for improved collaboration and data integration or enhancing functionality by adding a robust rules engine. These developers have similar requirements to those of the Premier Edition, but also require other Progress application development tool sets.
   

The Progress OpenEdge Developers Kit (OEDK) have been designed for ALL OpenEdge developers, from the independent consultant, through the IT departments of enterprise customers, to Service Delivery and Application Partners. There is an edition of OEDK that will suit the requirements of every OpenEdge customer or partner.

Each OpenEdge Developers Kit subscription, whether new, as a renewal, or contracted at the time of an upgrade, is offered for a minimum of 12 months. Customers may choose to add additional months in order to change the timing of their next renewal if desired. In that case, the pricing will be adjusted accordingly.

 All the products included in OEDK can be used for evaluation and testing in accordance with OpenEdge Developers Kit License Agreement. 

Any new features added to an edition of OEDK, such as new versions of included software, will require an upgrade in order to receive the license codes for that new feature. The upgrade can be performed on the  Customer Self-Service Portal  and simply requires a new subscription term to be put in place.

The Service Packs for the various releases and platforms will be made available on the Electronic Software Download (ESD) site, alongside the media files for the OpenEdge Developers Kit (OEDK) edition to which the developer has subscribed. Developers can choose to download and apply the Service Packs when they need them.

For all OpenEdge Developers Kits editions that require a subscription (other than Classroom Edition) each developer must choose the versions, platforms and products that they wish to utilize within their own software kit. To see the earlier, supported versions of OpenEdge and within each OpenEdge Developers Kit edition see the  OEDK Contents.

There are pages on the  Customer Self-Service Portal  to enter those choices and generate their own set of license keys, provided they have entitlement based upon the edition to which they have subscribed.

Each developer must have a ProgressID registered with Progress and that ProgressID is associated with a subscription plan. The developers can then download the appropriate media files from the Electronic Software Download (ESD) center and install the software kit on as many machines and for as many developers as their OEDK subscription covers.

 The Progress OpenEdge Developers Kit (OEDK) have been designed for ALL OpenEdge developers, from the independent consultant, through the IT departments of enterprise customers, to Service Delivery and Application Partners. There is an edition of OEDK that will suit the requirements of every OpenEdge customer or partner.

Membership to the Partner+ Program does entitle partners to the provision of some free seats of an OpenEdge Developers Kit subscription, depending upon their partner type and level. Please contact your Progress account manager to determine the appropriate Progress Partner benefit to the OpenEdge Developers Kit.

The Classroom Edition is a downloadable application development toolkit for the next generation of aspiring business application developers. This edition is free and students, new developers and future entrepreneurs gain access this package of powerful application development tools that are simple to learn and easy-to-use. It is the latest version of OpenEdge, for the Win-64 platform and includes a seat for one developer. Other editions require a paid subscription and include support for earlier versions of OpenEdge, support for other platforms and include Technical Support. Some free seats for a paid subscription are available as a benefit for those participating in the Partner+ Program.

Existing licenses that customers hold, such as OpenEdge Studio or Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge, will have been purchased as perpetual licenses with an annual maintenance contract that covers customer support. This is a different licensing model than the subscription model of OEDK. Therefore, it is not possible to trade-in any values from the perpetual licenses.

Customers may decide to forego the renewal of their maintenance on the perpetual licenses and take out a subscription for an OEDK Edition as an alternative; the pricing for a single developer seat of an OEDK: Corporate Edition annual subscription plan is similar to the annual maintenance fee charged for an OpenEdge Studio single named-user license.