VIDEO INTERVIEW: Progress Software's John Ainsworth on agentic RAG, MCP and why bypassing business logic is "fraught with incredible risk"
You can't spell Ainsworth without AI. It's a small linguistic coincidence, but it's also a neat shorthand for the conversation I had with John Ainsworth, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Application and Data Platforms at Progress Software, who flew into Sydney last week to deliver the keynote at the OpenEdge World Tour 2026 at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth.
The full video and article can be seen and read here:
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For iTWire readers who run ABL shops, OpenEdge databases, ERP backends, banking cores and logistics systems where downtime is counted in dollars per second, this visit matters. Progress is going all-in on AI, agentic systems and the Model Context Protocol. Ainsworth is here to show Australian customers how it fits with code they've trusted for decades.
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