SPONSOR'S REPORT: Leverage the power of Progress.

Organisations worldwide turn to Progress Software for its robust, mature application development environment. When they need technology and services to create, deploy, and enhance complex, business-critical applications, they come to Progress.

In fact, more than 2,300 expert Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) now provide packaged software applications using Progress Software technology. These partners deliver more than US$1.5 billion in applications annually to customers in manufacturing, finance, distribution, health care, retail and other industries.

In total, Progress powers more than 5,000 applications in over 60 countries worldwide.

There are five main reasons why Progress is the first choice for application development:

* Price/performance leadership

* Flexibility and scalability

* Future Proof programming environment

* High availability and data integrity

* Hardware and operating system portability.

To take advantage of the popularity of the Internet and JAVA, the Progress product line has grown in recent times. It now includes:

* Apptivity - a scalable, Java-based development tool for the enterprise* PROGRESS V8.3 - Progress's graphical 4GL application development environment* WebSpeed - a scalable Web-based development platform for building applications that require high-speed transactions across the Internet* PROGRESS RDBMS - the number one embedded database.

To find out more please contact Progress Software at salesinfo@melbourne.progress.com