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In his published report,
"Mainsoft and the System z," Tony Lock, Research Director, The Sageza
Group, identifies the business benefits and cost savings opportunities of
porting .NET applications to the Mainframe:
"With server consolidation a major consideration in many enterprises, Mainsoft's
technology offers organizations the option of adding new workloads onto the
Mainframe, thereby enhancing the overall utilization of the platform, and hence
optimizing the cost of ownership of both the Mainframe and the .NET
applications."
Mainsoft and IBM help enterprises with a large Windows server farm and a
Mainframe to reduce software licensing fees, operational expenses and TCO
significantly, by consolidating distributed .NET workloads onto WebSphere®
or zOS running on
IBM System z. Until now, existing investments in .NET code and skills
have made server consolidation a risky, impractical alternative. This can now
be accomplished using Mainsoft, Enterprise
Edition.
Mainsoft and IBM will help develop the business case to migrate from .NET to
Linux, which includes assessing:
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Incremental processing capacity that may be needed to rehost .NET workloads on
the Mainframe.
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The migration path for enterprise .NET applications, databases and middleware
to Java EE.
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Optimization of .NET enterprise applications running on the Mainframe.
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Savings associated with annual software licensing fees and operating expenses,
and the ability to maintain incremental workloads using existing support staff.
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Fixed-time, fixed-cost migration services
Mainsoft's Professional Services team has developed a proven, systematic
methodology that addresses the most common and most problematic challenges of
complex porting projects to deliver projects on time and on budget. We base our
estimates on our capacity to port up to 5,000 lines of code to Java EE per day,
depending on the size and complexity of the project. Customers typically save
an average fifteen to eighteen months or more over rewriting the application
from scratch.
We offer a proven 3-step methodology to expedite migration projects:
Phase 1: Fixed-time, fixed-cost proposal
Mainsoft's cross-platform experts analyze your Windows® application
binaries to build a porting project and deliver a fixed-time, fixed-cost
proposal, including milestones and resource allocation. In most cases, we don't
need source code to complete the analysis, and there is no need for an NDA.
The technical review includes:
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Scope of the functionality that needs to be ported.
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Dependency analysis of application modules including third-party components.
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Identification of porting challenges.
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Application testing requirements.
Phase 2: Code migration
We next request the .NET application source code, including the test suite and
we set-up a reference Windows build of the application to be ported together
with the test suite. We then validate that the test suite passes on Windows.
Our cross-platform experts will port the test suite as well as the application
at an average rate of 5,000 lines of code per day, while documenting any
changes to the original code made to address inherent platform semantic gaps
and integration with third-party components.
Finally, we fine-tune and validate the test suite on Linux and System z and
deliver the migrated application, which now compiles, builds, runs and passes
the test suite on System z the same way it does it on Windows.
Phase 3: Skills migration
In the final phase, we empower enterprise development teams to maintain and
develop Java EE applications using the same .NET team that designed and
developed the original application. We set up a cross-platform development
environment tailored to the enterprise's needs. Customers get the tools and
cross-platform methodologies to enable .NET developers to maintain and develop
the Linux application quickly and cost effectively from within the Visual
Studio® development environment.
For a migration analysis, contact sales@mainsoft.com.
Pricing
Mainsoft is licensed per developer and per deployed CPU. It costs $40,000 per
IFL processor and $6,000 per developer seat, including first year of support
and maintenance. Volume discounts are available.
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