[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - VAX to Integrity Migration - OK for external (fwd)

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Dátum: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:50:29 -0400
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - VAX to Integrity Migration - OK for external

Dear Distribution Lists,

Here is an excellent OpenVMS Pearl from Parsec.

Warm Regards,
Sue


 
http://www.openvmsplanet.org/index.php?
s=&c=24&d=&e=&f=&g=&a=1217&w=2
http://www.parsec.com/about/news.php#787
 
Integrity Platform: The Choice for Running OpenVMS
PARSEC Group
05/08/2006
 
Computerized Bookmaking Systems Inc. (CBS), of Las Vegas, the largest
seller of race and sports systems, recently completed a successful
migration of their application software on OpenVMS from VAX to Alpha,
then from Alpha servers to hp's new Integrity servers with OpenVMS. 
CBS
runs mission-critical applications on OpenVMS due to the security and
stability of the system-their customers cannot afford to experience any
downtime and OpenVMS delivers the reliability they need.

 CBS was at first hesitant to implement the migration to Itanium 
because
certain layered software products from hp, such as TSM (Terminal Server
Manager), have not been ported to Itanium. To overcome this, they
revised portions of their application to communicate TCP/IP, thus
eliminating old serial links. In the end, they were very successful in
porting more than a million lines of Pascal code, with about half a
dozen revisions where the VAX Pascal code was not implemented fully 
on
the Integrity platform. Previously PARSEC Group's Paul Williams ported
the Macro code to work on the Alpha servers. CBS ended up making 
some
very minor changes to the Macro where it was not fully implemented on
the Integrity.

Karl, Director of Research and Development for CBS, was impressed by 
the
cost-effectiveness of Itanium, so instead of migrating their VAX
customers to Alphas, he decided to migrate them directly to Integrity.
"When compared to the Alpha platform, the cost of buying Itanium is 
less
for the same performance," he said. "Alpha has served us very well, but
Itanium is definitely the choice for future growth." Due to Alpha's
phase-out, with the last date to order Alpha in October of 2006, it is
time to plan for what's next: Integrity.


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