Manufacturing/Chemicals
Nature of Project
Hewlett Packard HP-UX to IBM RS/6000 AIX
C, FORTRAN
This manufacturing giant has gone through many business changes over the past 75 years. From chemical production to oil and natural gas, to aerospace and automotive, they have grown and changed through mergers and acquisitions.
An important step for this company was to undergo a major business move to consolidate and migrate their aerospace applications to a new platform. Their aerospace focused applications are deployed on a number of platforms from HP, Sun and Compaq. The company realized that moving to a single platform with a dependable vendor would reduce operational cost as well as reliance on platforms and vendors that did not have a clear strategy for the future. This led to the decision to request bids from IBM, Sun and other vendors.
Sector7 helped IBM win the bid by rapidly migrating a large quantity of application code to AIX. The applications selected for the Proof of Concept consisted of nearly six million lines of C and Fortran code. The company chose to move their applications to IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX, IBM’s version of UNIX. The POC migration project began in May of 1999 and was completed by June 1999. The porting of the C and Fortran code was successfully completed in the relatively short time of two months.
Due to the success of the POC, IBM and Sector7 were selected to consolidate thousands of UNIX footprints and migrate many millions of lines of application code. When dealing with a project of this size and scope, the client company had to locate providers which possessed a solid knowledge of the software along with the ability to respond quickly and the service capability to back up any problems which might arise in the future. Sector7 has more than 20 years experience in porting and consolidating UNIX applications and hardware. Sector7's expertise in all the software involved gave the client the perfect migration solution.
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