Linux-it

Linux's functionality, flexibility, vigor and its free distribution have made it the main alternative for proprietary Unix and Microsoft operating systems. Today, many security firms, ISVs etc. have been migrating large parts of their IT infrastructure (including their mission critical applications) to Linux and the growing support from distributors and established technology firms have been increasing portability across a range of platforms.

While Linux offers the prospective significant savings based on software licensing costs and hardware expenses, there is also a significant risk of failure.

S7’s Linux-it tool is the right answer for the risk of failure. It helps organizations to estimate and analyze the porting issues involved even before it tries to port the code. It helps them determine whether the application should be migrated or rewritten. Once the company makes a decision to migrate based on the analysis and results, Linux-it helps in migrating the applications from their current proprietary operating system/platform to Linux-based platforms in a phased and regulated manner. Thus the risk is minimized without having to forfeit any of the important factors. The product not only focuses on converting your application to run in a new environment, but also ensures that the reliability and integrity of the application is maintained throughout the migration process.
Technically speaking, Linux-it is a suite of tools to port applications to Linux [Redhat, SuSE etc] from Sun Solaris, HP, SGI, SCO, and AIX. It comprises of Parser, Wrapper and Converter programs and provides a better porting decision by estimating the porting and cost complexity even before the porting process begins.

It also automates the possible porting tasks and reduces time and development effort. With Linux-it, a client gets both tools and a methodology to move to the LINUX environment. It relies upon a set of scripts and tools to achieve efficiency and productivity improves in the process of migration. While the scripts identify the possible porting issues, the tools actually generate part of the migration code.

Linux-it can effortlessly perform the following porting and migration tasks-

* Less critical server migration (like file servers, print servers, mail servers, intranet web servers, firewalls servers, DNS servers etc)
* Application server platform and application migration of non-critical applications.
* Application server platform and application migration of critical business applications.
* Database server migration to LINUX OS - keeping the database same.
* Database server migration to Linux OS, along with migration of database to an open source db like MySQL.

S7’s Linux-it provides an integrated end-to-end solution that covers aspects like porting analysis, effort estimation and actual migration to the target Linux environment and our professional team ensures that the system testing with the new environment is completely done and successfully deployed.