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----------------------------------------------------------- From: rilov Message 1 in Discussion Microsoft have enteting in to a new alliance to enable the migration of critical proprietary mainframe systems onto the Microsoft Windows operating system using Microsoft .NET technology. The alliance lays the technology foundation to move application workloads from the mainframe to more modern Intel architecture and the Windows Server platform. It aims to help customers reduce the high cost of maintaining and modernizing their aging mainframe environments. Redeploying mainframe legacy assets to newer, cheaper platforms saves time and money. Costs can be reduced by up to 50 per cent when moving IT operations to an equivalent Windows platform and customers have also reported improved performance, enabling them to improve key business processes without significant additional investment. "As organisations increasingly realise that they need to re-use rather than replace their existing mainframe applications any initiative that enables them to do this at lower cost and risk is extremely valuable to them," said Gary Barnett, IT research director at Ovum. "This alliance will help enterprise users take a more cost-effective and reliable approach to the task of migrating applications to the Windows platform than the expensive and risk-prone 'rip and replace' approach that was the vogue in the late 1990s." Micro Focus Enterprise Server with its new Mainframe Transaction Option underpins the new platform alliance and now enables the migration and deployment of Cics/Cobol mainframe applications to the Windows platform. Enterprise Server offers the most rapid and lowest-risk way of re-hosting mainframe applications on Windows. Once the application has been re-hosted it can be extended more easily and effectively through the use of the .NET Framework, SQL Server 2000, XML and Web services. "We have seen outstanding results by migrating our IT operation to the Windows environment through Micro Focus' solutions," said LeŽo TheŽberge, chief information officer of Quebec Loisir, a direct-to-consumer media corporation that is part of DirectGroup Bertelsmann. "Moving to Windows is a critical business decision for us because it provides a low-cost, strategic platform to leverage critical value from our existing IT assets." Please find the Attched Document for more details........ rilov p.k City Digial Software Cochin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] View Attachment(s): http://groups.msn.com/CochinDotNet/_notifications.msnw?type=msg&mview=1&parent=1&item=727 ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/CochinDotNet/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
