[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[abrsvc]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:08:17 AM UTC-4, Eric Smith wrote:
> So the writing appears to be on the wall, and after scouring the web
> and chatting to colleagues, I've finally been convinced that our large
> business-critical application currently running on OpenVMS (IA64) has
> to be moved to something that will be supported fifteen years down the
> line.
> 
> Since this is a niche community, I'm appealing to anyone in the know
> to find out who specialises in COBOL system migrations, specifically
> *from* OpenVMS, to any modern platform (interpretation: Windows or
> Linux)?  I'm looking for someone to come in and do the whole job and
> leave us with a system that behaves just as it did before.

There are way too many issues to be discussed about this to allow anyone here to give you useful information regarding the transition.  For example, is the system uptime critical 24 hours per day? or is similar functionality and screen interaction mroe inmportant?  What does the system do? Are there alternatives that already exist where a migration to another already existing package would be less expensive?  Do you have modules written in MAcro that would need to be implimented in another language? 

Contact me directly for more information.

Dan

Dansabrservices AT Yahoo DOT com