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 | |
|---|---|
 | Chef is an open source systems integration framework and configuration management system. Chef provides a Ruby library and API that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure. |
| LoadMaster is a fully featured load balancer and application delivery controller (ADC) that supports all the major application workloads with easy-to-use templates. |
| MOVEit is a managed file transfer software product. The software encrypts files and uses file transfer protocols such as FTP(S) or SFTP to transfer data, as well as providing automation services, analytics and failover options. |
 | ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. It’s designed to handle document workflows for any size team. It has built-in security features to protect files. |
| 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. |