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FORM 4
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                                 U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                          WASHINGTON, DC 20549

                               STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
/ / CHECK BOX IF NO
    LONGER SUBJECT TO         Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities
    SECTION 16. FORM 4            Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the
    OR FORM 5 OBLIGATIONS         Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
    MAY CONTINUE. SEE              or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company
    INSTRUCTION 1(b).                           Act of 1940

                                                                                                       
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 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*      2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol   6. Relationship of Reporting Person to
Alsop, Joseph Wright                           Progress Software Corporation PRGS                 Issuer (Check all applicable)
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  (Last)          (First)          (Middle)    3. IRS Identification      4. Statement for      ----              ---
14 Oak Park                                       Number of Reporting        Month/Year          X  Officer (give    Other (Specify
- ---------------------------------------------     Person, if an Entity         12/31/00         ----        title ---       below)
                 (Street)                         (Voluntary)             ------------------                below)
Bedford            MA                01730                                5. If Amendment,           President and Director
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  (City)           (State)           (Zip)                                   (Month/Year)
USA                                                                                          7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
                                                                          ------------------    (Check applicable line)
                                                                                                 X    Form filed by one
                                                                                                ----  Reporting Person
                                                                                                      Form filed by more than
                                                                                                ----  one Reporting Person
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                         TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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 1. Title of Security           2. Trans-   3. Transac-  4. Securities Acquired (A)  5.  Amount of Se-    6. Owner-      7. Nature
    (Instr. 3)                     action      tion         or Disposed of (D)           curities Benefi-    ship           of In-
                                   Date        Code         (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)          cially Owned at     Form:          direct
                                               (Instr. 8)                                End of Month        Direct         Benefi-
                                  (Month/                                                (Instr. 3 and 4)    (D) or         cial
                                   Day/     ---------------------------------------                          Indirect       Owner-
                                   Year)    Code    V       Amount   (A) or   Price                          (I)            ship
                                                                     (D)                                     (Instr. 4)     (Instr.
                                                                                                                            4)

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Common Stock                      3/8/00      G     V       10,000      D                                        D
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Common Stock                    12/22/00      M             20,300      A    $4.7084                             D
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Common Stock                    12/28/00      G     V       33,444      D                    788,246             D
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Common Stock                    12/28/00      G     V        7,272(1)   A                      7,272             I        BY WIFE(2)
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*If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.                   (Over)

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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Title of Derivative 2. Conver- 3. Trans- 4. Trans- 5. Number of 6. Date Exer- 7. Title and Amount 8. Price Security sion or action action Derivative cisable and of Underlying of (Instr. 3) Exercise Date Code Securities Expiration Securities Deriv- Price of (Month/ (Instr. Acquired (A) Date (Instr. 3 and 4) ative Deriv- Day/ 8) or Disposed (Month/Day/ Secur- ative Year) of (D) Year) ity Security (Instr. 3, (Instr. 5) 4, and 5) ---------------------------------------- Date Expira- Amount or ---------------------------- Exer- tion Title Number of Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Shares - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Incentive Stock Options $19.2500 2/18/00 A V 10,200 3/1/00 2/18/10 Common Stock 10,200 (3) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonqualified Stock Options $19.2500 2/18/00 A V 89,800 3/1/00 2/18/10 Common Stock 89,800 (5) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonqualified Stock Options $12.0625 10/6/00 A V 150,000 10/6/00 10/6/10 Common Stock 150,000 (7) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Incentive Stock Options $4.7084 12/22/00 M 20,300 3/1/97 3/3/07 Common Stock 20,300 (9) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Title of Derivative 9. Number of 10. Ownership 11. Nature of Security Derivative Form of Indirect (Instr. 3) Securities Derivative Beneficial Beneficially Security: Ownership Owned at End Direct (D) (Instr. 4) of Month or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Incentive Stock Options 10,200(4) D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonqualified Stock Options 89,800(6) D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonqualified Stock Options 150,000(8) D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Incentive Stock Options 35,000(10) D - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Explanation of Responses: (1) Gift by Mr. Alsop to his wife. (2) Mr. Alsop disclaims beneficial ownership of such shares. (3) The options vest in equal monthly increments over a 60 month period commencing March 1, 2000. (4) On 12/31/00, options to purchase 1,700 shares were vested. (5) The options vest in equal monthly increments over a 60 month period commencing March 1, 2000. (6) On 12/31/00, options to purchase 14,967 shares were vested. (7) The options vest on the date of grant with respect to eight-sixtieths of the total amount, thereafter in equal monthly increments over a 52 month period commencing November 1, 2000. (8) On 12/31/00, options to purchase 25,000 shares were vested. (9) The option vests in equal monthly increments over a 60 month period commencing March 1, 1997. (10) On 12/31/00, 20,300 options were vested. **Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. /s/ Joseph W. Alsop 1/9/01 See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). ------------------------------- ------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date /s/ Joseph W. Alsop Note. File three copies of this form, one of which must be manually signed. Page 2 If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.