Financial Services/Exchange
Nature of Project
CLICK Exchange System
DEC VAX VMS to IBM RS/6000 AIX
C
This Swedish options and futures exchange was founded in 1985. Much of the company's success can be attributed to its operating system which it pioneered in the 1980's.
The application was developed to run on a DEC/VMS system and became popular enough for the company to create a separate business entity just to market it. The system was widely recognized as one of the best futures and exchanges operating systems available. This exchange company offered high speed, security for all transactions, and continuous upgrades to ensure a long life span.
This client company approached Sector7 to migrate the exchange application from the current DEC/VMS system to the IBM/AIX platform. This was a major project, lasting nearly 18 calendar months and encompassing nearly a million lines of code. Testing and validation, as well as performance, were essential items to the success of this project. This was a complete migration of the system, with emphasis on minimum code changes and maintaining a single source code "tree" for ease of maintenance between the AIX version and the DEC/VMS version. The database was changed from DEC's Rdb to Oracle and DB2 which is more standard in the industry.
Due to the size and importance of this migration, the client group chose Sector7 to assist in migration of their exchange application. Sector7 provided the experience and know-how to successfully migrate applications of this size. With all that OM had at stake, it was important to find a team that could handle such a huge undertaking, with limited risk. To the client's satisfaction, Sector7 successfully migrated this critical trading application.
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