Progress Software Corporation is an American company that develops software for creating and deploying business applications. Their vision is to propel business forward in a technology-driven world. The company was founded in 1981 when it was called Data Language Corporation.
Progress provides a variety of software products covering data platforms, data connectivity, digital experience, devops, infrastructure management and operations, UI/UX tools, and secure file tools.
Progress Chef is a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. It uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration “recipes”. It’s open source software published under the Apache License 2.0. However, their other products are published under a proprietary license.
What if you are looking to move away from proprietary software. In this series we showcase open source alternatives to products from Progress.
This is a new series. Bear with us as we compile additional roundups.
All articles in this series:
| Alternatives to Progress's Products | |
|---|---|
 | Sitefinity is a content management system (CMS) that you use to create, store, manage, and present content on your website. |
 | WS_FTP is a secure FTP client that provides reliable and secure transfer of critical files. WS_FTP consists of an FTP server and an FTP client. |