Several years ago, you purchased a brand new server to run your QAD environment. Loaded with the fastest processors and the most RAM that money can buy, you were amazed to see your MRP runtime go from hours to minutes, not to mention the number of users it supported. Now fast forward into today, that system is living on borrowed time.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out how to migrate that system to Linux before the bomb goes off; good luck…you know the rest of it.
This story was not an action movie but an actual situation my customer was experiencing. They were a leading global automotive parts manufacturer running on ageing infrastructure. To be precise, it was an older version of UNIX (AIX). However, the same challenge applies to any older OS version such as in Windows or Linux, especially HP-UX (Read the bulletin here about discontinued support for HP-UX Itanium).
Several years ago, you purchased a brand new server to run your QAD environment. Loaded with the fastest processors and the most RAM that money can buy, you were amazed to see your MRP runtime go from hours to minutes, not to mention the amount of users it supported. Now fast forward into today, that system is living on borrowed time.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out how to migrate that system to Linux before the bomb goes off; good luck…you know the rest of it.
This story was not an action movie but an actual situation my customer was experiencing. They were a leading global automotive parts manufacturer running on ageing infrastructure. To be precise, it was an older version of UNIX (AIX). However, the same challenge applies to any older OS version such as in Windows or Linux, especially HP-UX (Read the bulletin here about discontinued support for HP-UX Itanium).