IBM has worked with Sector7 on application migration projects for six years and has added its application porting tools, consultancy services, and migration expertise to its Global Services business for an undisclosed fee.
The acquired assets include Sector7’s server consolidation and Linux and Unix migration business. However, given the potential to poach users of Hewlett-Packard Co’s [HPQ] VMS operating system, who may be concerned about a move to Intel Corp’s [INTC] Itanium processors, IBM has opted not to acquire Texas-based Sector7’s core OpenVMS application migration tools and business.
What remains of Sector7 will be focused on migrations from the VMS operating system, and will be known as Digital Migrations. Although this could have provided good business for IBM (the company teamed up with Sector7 in July 2001 to make use of Sector7’s VMS migration skills), it will undoubtedly provide a lucrative niche for Digital Migrations.
What IBM has acquired includes expertise in migrating/porting Windows applications to Linux and migrating older legacy system applications to Linux, as well as 32-bit to 64-bit conversion, database migration, server consolidation methodologies, and migration project management.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
