Progress Software Corp has signed a deal to distribute a set of ‘pop up’ software engineering tools, designed for its own application development environment by Vanguard Computer Services Ltd, Narberth, Pennslyvania. The Workbench is written entirely in the Progress language, offers a variety of display features and enables developers to test applications and terminal benchmarks without leaving Progress. It can be accessed from any location in the Progress environment and is available as a separate module to the Progress 4GL/RDBMS. Prices range from $350 to $4,250 for the Workbench, on micros running MS-DOS, Xenix 286 and 386 systems, NCR Tower 32 Series and Sun-3s. Privately held Progress Software Corp had sales of $15.3m in 1988.
