Competence Center for VAX/VMS migration: what do YOU want

[Didier Morandi_2]

THIS MESSAGE FOR VAX/VMS USERS

I'm working these days as a consultant on the setup of an European Competence Center to help VAX/VMS Users to migrate to OpenVMS/I64.

What resources do you expect to find in such activity?

From previous analysis, I already decided to propose the following items:

a) advisory, or better say Change Management i.e. psychological help to assist users in the process of taking such decision. The "ostrich behaviour" is not a professional one.

b) numerous platforms to port software on and perform actual migration of code, locally in a lab or remotely via the Internet (Telnet, DECNet over IP, VPN, etc.)

c) software engineers availability for technical discussions and/or on site consulting

d) marketing/sales people availability for discussions on licenses and such

e) CHARON-VAX, CHARON-Alpha booth for those who would prefer that solution

f) coffee/tea/red wine corner

What else?
Thanks,

D.
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Didier MORANDI - Expert informaticien - VMS / SAP
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[Antoniov. · Accepted solution]

Didier,
I say hardware compatibility list. Some vax have customer-designed cards which make unpraticable migration of software.
In most common case, migration of server means reingenering of workstation and network. Network engineers are needed.

Antonio Vigliotti

P.S.
At f) level, add some biscuit :-)

[Ian Miller.]

TCO information to show that it saves money to transfer to a more modern VMS system.

f) + beer :-)

[Willem Grooters]

What is your focus? Should be small and medium size businesses, I guess. VAX, but don't forget Alpha. Some companies have old ones and they could well benefit from this centre as well.

I guess the company I work for would surely be interested in all but b), depending on location, that would be supplied by HP (in the Netherlands anyway).

Antonio,
Agreed on netwerk people though that would not be the biggest issue. I think that hardware engineers are required as well, since you may need to do hardware replacement as well (Unibus devices, for instance).

[Uwe Zessin]

Software compatibility lists and migration possibilities, because many VAX-based software has been EOLed.

f) ice

[Antoniov.]

Didier,
in your signature I see VMS / SAP.
Just for curiosisty, what does it mean, SAP ERP software?

Antonio Vigliotti

[Didier Morandi_2]

Re Willem: my focus is all Customers Problem solving.

re Antonio: Yes, I specialized on SAP CRM during the no-VMS slots part of my life (2000-2004)

[Jan van den Ende]

Didier,


would that not make you into _THE_ perfect man to advocate SAP availability on VMS?

Somehow it MUST be possible to convinse those SAPpers that VMS (and especially clustered) would be a WONDERFUL platform for such stuff!


... but the idea is appealing...

f) I Igree with Ian!

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Re: Uwe


Software compatibility lists and migration possibilities, because many VAX-based software has been EOLed.

I couldn't agree more. But not only VAX-based software has been EOLed. There's a bunch of Alpha software too that is not yet ( will never get ) ported to Itanium.
Maybe an idea to have ISV representatives occasionally on site.

Kris (aka Qkcl)

[Uwe Zessin]

Yes, but I'd like to reserve that for the 'Competency Center for Alpha migration' ;-)