Finding Answers in the Compaq Chaos: Sector7 and IBM to Provide Migration Solutions for Alpha/OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2001 Sector7 announced today that, in light of the Compaq decision to end the Alpha architecture and transfer all Alpha Intellectual Property and personnel to Intel, they will expand their current IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) service portfolio by offering Compaq VAX/Alpha OpenVMS and Tru64users a free initial assessment to determine cost and time to re-host their custom or package applications to IBM pSeries computer systems. The offer from Sector7 and IBM for this free initial assessment (up to a $100K value depending on the application size) is available immediately. "Since Compaq's recent announcement to consolidate its entire 64-bit family of servers onto the Intel Itanium microprocessor architecture by 2004, we have seen a significant increase in the number of hits to our website and interest in our services," said Jon Power, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Sector7 USA Inc. "We had a great deal of interest back in September of 1999 when Compaq announced it would discontinue support for the Alpha/NT platform but nothing like we are seeing now. That was just the end of a specific operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. ...this is the end of the architecture and it is clear to me that decision makers are reconsidering their loyalty to Compaq, and are actively seeking other alternatives." "Alpha OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX The 64-bit Unix operating system for HP's AlphaServers. Formerly Digital Unix when Alpha was a product family from Digital Equipment Corporation, it was renamed Tru64 Unix in 1999 by Compaq (HP acquired Compaq in 2002). clients have invested millions of dollars in applications to run their businesses and I doubt they ever thought that being forced to migrate to a totally new computer system was what Compaq meant by protecting their investment in Alpha platforms." Sector7's five-step application migration process, refined over the past 15 years through many successful projects with IBM, provides Compaq users with a way to move to a state-of-the-art IBM pSeries UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environment immediately. Sector7 services include: -- Enterprise application re-platforming -- Legacy application management -- OpenVMS consulting, support and contracting -- Testing and implementation -- Application renovation -- Server consolidation and migration About Sector7 Sector7 was established in the U.K. in 1985 by CEO Jon Power. Since then Sector7 has migrated many leading-edge applications from OpenVMS to Windows and UNIX as well as many UNIX-to-UNIX migrations. The experience gained is of obvious benefit to new clients: it reduces the time, risk and overall cost required to migrate applications to a new platform. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sector7 has offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia Pacific. Sector7's tools and services enable application developers across all industry sectors to retain the significant investment in their applications by providing them with a cost-effective means to migrate them from proprietary systems to other operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including, but not limited to, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . For more information about Sector7, please visit www.sector7.com or contact: Buzz/Robin Goetz 646/729-7994 robin@realbuzz.com |
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