VMS to HP-UX migration

[John Donovan_4]

Well it appears that OpenVMS has nearly come to its end-of-life here and management is having us move to HP-UX.

There are several applications written in DEC C & Digital FORTRAN running on Alpha/VMS 7.3-2. As an OpenVMS system admin I'll be moving over to HP-UX side and I'd like know, from this illustrious group, if HP offers any migration tools/programs/facilities I can offer to our programmers to go from VMS to HP-UX. Again the programs to port are currently written in DEC C and Digital FORTRAN.

Thanks in advance - jd

[Dennis Handly]

You might want to look at the "Alpha Retain Trust" program:
http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/alpha_retaintrust/index.html?jumpid=go/evo
lution

[John Donovan_4]

Thanks Dennis, but I've been there already.

[Lynn Hsu_2]

HP has a dedicated program (Developer & Solution Partner Program) to help migration to HP-UX including SW porting. If you SW/app is commercial one, they even provide assistance for Free. Check this out:
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Lynn

[Vladimir Fabecic]

John
Porting applications from one platform to another is not trivial. So (from my experiance) you will not get good assistance, at least not for free. You and your developers will have to do the hard job. VMS is specific, and porting applications from VMS to UNIX will show you how things can get difficult, expecially the fortran stuff.
But nothing is impossible!
Who knows, maybe support is better in USA.
You would have much less problems porting applications to VMS integrity, but it is not what you want.
By the way, OpenVMS is NOT near the end-of-life.
If using VMS clusters, HP-UX can NOT give good alternative.
Destiny of OpenVMS and HP-UX is destiny of intergrity platform. No success of Itanium, no VMS and no HP-UX.

[John Donovan_4]

Thank you all for your input. I have found my answer from our HP rep. If anyone else needs this here it is:

Porting OpenVMS to HP-UX:
HP rents 4 hotel ballrooms, stuffs them full of Integrity servers, and then includes many operating system and compiler experts from HP-UX, Linux, OpenVMS and Windows Integrity in the respective rooms. Customers come with their application code and port it on the spot. When they leave, they take away their ported application and an rx2600. All for $2000 per person.

Point your customers at

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/bus/bus_BusDetailPage_IDX/1,1252,6045,00.html

This gives full details on the workshops, the schedules (there is one in Atlanta in October and one in Boston in August), and the sign-up sheets.

For the more general case, where HP comes in and discusses the potential future targets for custom code, you should consider the TEC workshops, which are at http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/alpha_retaintrust/transition_consulting.html.

thanks again - jd

[John Donovan_4]

(see prior note)