Openedge - a long history
July 05, 2017

Openedge - a long history

Gerald Meachem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with OpenEdge

We have used and continue to use openedge in the ongoing development and maintenance of a hospital pharmacy drug information system. The system assists the pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the preparation, distribution, analysis, and other activities within a hospital pharmacy. Openedge assists us with an easy to learn development environment that still provides significant depth and complexity where required.
  • Easy to learn. Syntax is simple and easy to read. Quick development.
  • The database is reliable and requires little maintenance. Good performance.
  • Integration between the language and the database is an asset. But not so tightly integrated that the language cannot be used with other databases. We are also using Openedge with Oracle databases through their dataserver product.
  • Lack of multi-threading capability has been a complaint among other developers here.
  • The speed of development and ease of learning has had a positive impact on ROI
  • The cost of use has had a negative one. In this era of free tools everywhere, paying for a product is a challenge to accept.
The decision to use openedge with our particular product was made such a long time ago that I certainly was not around to make the decision. And most of the other products that would have been compared at the time are likely no longer around. Which does speak to the longevity and benefits of this product. When you look back and see how long the same product has been going forward with constant improvements and remaining relevant without major disruptive changes, it is worthy of some credit.
I have had limited exposure to other development environments, but I have found Openedge to be well suited for the purposes that we are using it for. We have a windows client-server application that has been in use for over 20 years and has held it's age well. We also have a web based product using openedge appserver to access our backend code. The appserver functions well and we have been happy with it.