> #### Fathom Management and the Progress OpenEdge Platform

> Fathom™ Management is a key component of the Progress® OpenEdge™ Platform. This platform provides you with all of the tools to build complete, mission-critical applications. OpenEdge then gives you the ability to deploy and manage those applications across a wide range of platforms and configurations—host-based, client/server, n-tier, and Web-based environments, open and proprietary systems, and character and graphical interfaces—without changing the application's business logic. This allows developers to focus on solving business problems, not on reacting to changes in the organization's computing configuration.

> The OpenEdge platform is a comprehensive platform for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing business applications:

> - Development Tools — OpenEdge Studio, WebSpeed® Workshop, 4GL Development System, Translation Manager and Roundtable® TSMS (total software management system).
> - Application Framework — Progress Dynamics®.
> - Client Processing — GUI client, character client, WebSpeed Agents, WebClient™, Open Clients (Java™, .NET, and Web services).
> - Business Processing — The business-purposed Progress® 4GL.
> - Analytical Processing — Business Intelligence (CorVu®) and reporting (Crystal Decisions™, Progress RESULTS®, and Progress Report Engine).
> - Integration — OpenEdge Adapters for SonicMQ® and Sonic ESB™.
> - Application Server — OpenEdge Application Server, including the Progress AppServer™ and the WebSpeed Transaction Server.
> - Data Management —OpenEdge RDBMS and DataServer technology.
> - Application Management — Fathom Management, Fathom Replication.

> For more information about OpenEdge, see the Progress Software Web site at `http://www.progress.com/products/index.htm` and see OpenEdge Getting Started: Welcome to Release 10, provided with your software.

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