What’s the track record of Progress buying companies? Is it a case of Oracle or IBM sucking the life out of them due to lack of investment, and living off the installed base? Or something more positive?
My biggest complaint is how unresponsive they are to fixing bugs. After reported it may be months or a year before you see it fixed.
What I dont know is if that is common in that "ui component" sector?
I think this is why almost nobody uses closed-source libraries. Having to pay isn't the biggest problem: it's not being able to fix issues like these yourself.