OpenEdge Developers Kit FAQ

By choosing the affordable subscription model that best fits your development and licensing needs, you’ll be able to reduce the development costs of your business. The new 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 all supported versions of Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge (PDSO), a small testing environment, online support ticketing, and access to KnowledgeBase and education tools.
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, standard Tech Support and education. 
4. Premier – Provides everything our Application Partners need to build industry business applications and support the myriad of 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 modernize their business applications leveraging new technology trends such as SaaS, cloud or mobile. These developers have similar requirements to those of the Premier Edition, but also require other Progress application development tool sets. Includes Telerik Platform for OpenEdge enabling customers to extend their OpenEdge applications and go mobile, as well as Kendo UI Builder, the best way to build high-performing, better-looking web apps.

The Progress OpenEdge Developers Kit (OEDK) have been designed for ALL OpenEdge developers. The original Progress Software Developers Network (PSDN) was only available to Application Partners, but the new OEDK Editions are available to all 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, or as a renewal, or taken at the time of an upgrade, is for a minimum of 12 months.  Customers may choose to take additional months in order to change the timing of their next renewal and the pricing will be adjusted accordingly.

Yes. The Classroom Edition and the Basic Edition include three fundamental OpenEdge online training courses and access to the OpenEdge Classroom, a private group of new developers on Progress Community consisting of 13,000 OpenEdge experts and users from around the world. For the more experienced developers the Corporate, Premier and Innovator editions include access to all OpenEdge online courses, covering the most advanced topics for building mission-critical business applications.

The Corporate, Premier and Innovator editions provide the latest version of deployment products for evaluating and testing purposes across all supported platforms. Those deployment products include the Dataservers and the RDBMS Advanced Enterprise Edition (AEE), which includes Replication, Multi-Tenancy, Table Partitioning and Transparent Data Encryption.  If the customer chooses the Premier Edition they also have access to Progress Corticon to facilitate the evaluating and testing of a business rules server.

Telerik Platform for OpenEdge is included in the subscription to OpenEdge Developers Kit: Innovator Edition. There are no Telerik products included in any of the other editions. If a developer wants to develop mobile applications that easily connect to an OpenEdge application and use backend services, push notifications and mobile app usage analytics then OpenEdge Developers Kit: Innovator Edition is the offering of choice. The OpenEdge Developers Kit also includes the Kendo UI Builder, which includes the Telerik KendoUI HTML5 Widgets for building responsive Web Apps.

For all OpenEdge Developers Kits editions that require a subscription (not 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 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.

Any new features added to an edition of OEDK, such as a new version of Kendo UI Builder, 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 only requires a new subscription term to be put in place.

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 for single developers. 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.

Please contact your Progress account manager to review your current PSDN subscription and/or to determine what is available to you in the form of OpenEdge Developers Kit free seats as a Progress Partner.

The current development product discounting policy applies to PSDN subscriptions only. Membership of 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.

Existing licenses that customers will have, 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 not to renew 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.