LeRoy, We migrated from HP-UX to Windows (not quite the question you asked, but I hope still relevant) a couple of years ago.
No problems at all with any UniVerse code, but of course all our shell-scripts had to be re-written. Because all of the O/S interaction had been modularised into common service Routines, it was not a major task, although the 'idiosyncrasies' of double-quoted strings in a "DOS -c ..." Call gave us some grief, which you will perhaps remember. Rewriting all the shell scripts (in KixStart, although in retrospect VBScript might have been better) took one Systems Administrator about a month part-time. The UV program changes to call into the changed environment took one programmer about three weeks. If your client's code is sprinkled with "sh -c ..." calls, then it's a whole different question, of course. A month on Development, six or seven weeks on Test, then into Production on the new hardware. Oh yes, and an upgrade from 9.6 to 10.0 at the same time. Why did we do it? Easy - $$$ The entire cost of the new Windows system, including the hardware, all the upgrade costs and annual licensing fees, was less than half the annual maintenance & licensing fee on the HP hardware & software. Or to put it another way, we could have paid two more staff on the annual savings. The bean-counters find that kind of hard to ignore. Oh yes, and our main Payroll took about one-third as long as before. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Leroy Dreyfuss > Sent: Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:10 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] Linux to Windows > > Chuck, > What about porting an app from Linux, which you have been > using for a long time, to Windows, which you haven't > used yet? > That is the situation I am asking about. Did you encounter > any issues doing that? > Why did you choose Windows? > Regards, > > LeRoy F. Dreyfuss > Product Manager > IBM UniVerse and UniData (U2) Extended Relational Databases > Information Management Software > > Tel: 303-773-7783 Fax: 303-773-5915 > Mobile: 720-341-4317 Tie-line: 656-7783 > External email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/u2 > [SNIP] The information contained in this Internet Email message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged information, but not necessarily the official views or opinions of the New Zealand Defence Force. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this message or the information in it. If you have received this message in error, please Email or telephone the sender immediately. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
