OpenVMS

Migration

Since 1985 Sector7 has been in the exclusive business of rehosting and migrating applications to UNIX and Linux platforms.

OpenVMS Migration, Rehosting & Modernization Tools and Services for Linux, UNIX & Windows

Since we developed our OpenVMS migration toolkit in 1987. Sector7 has successfully migrated over 500 major corporations to varying UNIX and Linux derivative platforms.

The Best Tools For Integrating UNIX and OpenVMS

We developed our OpenVMS migration toolkit in 1987 [which was based upon our PDP-11 RSTS migration tools kit].

The Best Compatibility with OpenVMS

When DEC launched Alpha and OSF/1, they contracted with Sector7 to license copies of Sector7 DCL and PRINT and BATCH Queue Manager and distribute these products with the original OSF/1 CD-ROM.

The Best UNIX Operating System on the Best UNIX Platform

When DEC launched Alpha and OSF/1, they contracted with Sector7 to license copies of Sector7 DCL and PRINT and BATCH Queue Manager and distribute these products with the original OSF/1 CD-ROM.

Secured development

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10

Billion Lines Of Code Written

1000+

Delivered Projects

158

Combined years of experience

42

Avg. coffees per week

Performing a Managed Migration

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) asked Sector7 to write a piece in DEC Professional about how to manage a successful migration.

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6
Assessment
Assessment & Planning

By understanding and detailing the project size and scope, you reduce the risk of the projects going over budget, the planning stage provides a technical architecture for software identified in the assessment stage

Porting
Porting

During the porting stage, your UNIX system is created. The major effort of this stage is to obtain a working system that can be

Validation
Validation

The validation stage can bring the most long-term value. The final deliverable is your OpenVMS solution on open systems with your users working with it

Productization
Productization

The final stage is productization. The productization stage converts an OpenVMS solution running on UNIX into a true open systems solution

“Very honest; i.e. , not just another salesman in techies’ clothes.”

David Flatman

Software Lead, Data Reduction Services Boeing

"You were a great team, and I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with all of you.

Pam Rooks

Project Director Harrah’s Entertainment

"My experience w/ Sector7 porting the AOL application a few weeks ago was an extremely pleasant experience."

Dwain Plessinger

IBM Corporation e-business Server Solutions

The Top Tech-Stack for Your Next Project

Experience the power and versatility of the most advanced technology available. Our tech-stack includes the latest and greatest tools and frameworks, ensuring that your project is built with the best possible foundation. From front-end development to back-end integration, we've got you covered.

Mitigated Risk Process

Sector7 IS the thought leader in the business of application migration technologies and processes. We innovate migration process are always spearheading the next generation of tools and processes.

Only Migrations Since 1985

While successfully migrating PDP-11, HP-3000 and OpenVMS applications to UNIX and Linux, we were asked to provide a world wide UNIX to UNIX server consolidation practice to IBM. This practice eventually became known as IBM's Migration Factory,

Patent #7,616,583 &
Patent #8,869,124

Being Awarded a Patent was very 'cool' but, more than 'cool' it took a significant amount of work to rationalize the Migration Process into a mathematical model.  Without such a model, you cannot have a scalable repeatable process. Without a model and scalable process it becomes “guess work” with no "rigor" to support the estimates.

Frequently asked questions

We've answered some of common questions we receive. If you'd like more information then please contact us.

Why pick us?

We place great value on our well-defined process, strong project management, technical leadership and emphasis on testing. Before embarking on a significant re-hosting project, an organization must be aware of potentially significant challenges in project management and project implementation. Lack of re-hosting experience may cause these challenges to only become apparent in the middle of a re-hosting project.

Migrations are successful when planned and managed. Part of the planning and management is knowing the line item time (and what line items to be included). For over 30 years Sector7 has accumulated a huge database of line items and times from actual projects. We use these proven metrics to plan, resource and manage our migrations. If your organization does not want Sector7 involved in the day to day management of your project, we can still contribute our experience. In addition to the 'costing,' (Time and resources) Sector7 also has vast experience in line items and procedures essential for a migration that you may not even "know you don't know" (The Unknown Unknown).

How Long? How Much?

Since 1985 (Over 30 years) Sector7 has mainly performed Migrations using our tools. As such, we have metrics on over 1000 projects to draw upon.

We KNOW how long it takes to migrate 1 line of COBOL, FORTRAN. C, C++, BASIC, PASCAL.

We KNOW for example that rewriting DCL into Linux shell script is the most expensive Language Conversion—about $9 per line completed ('completed' in this case meaning migrated, fully tested and production ready) by experts who know DCL and Linux shell scripting—This is also the primary reason customers LOVE our DCL for Linux and UNIX.

Our approach is simple and makes sense. (A) Migrations need to be completed and onto production servers in the minimum possible time (B) A Migration is NOT the time to think about enhancing or changing the underlying technology (C) Leave any development work until after the migration is complete as then IT WILL NOT BE ON THE CRITICAL PATH

If we know what system service calls and what 'layered products' you are using, we can gauge 'complexity'. The HOW LONG and HOW MUCH are simple functions of the number of Lines of Code * Time Per Line * Complexity.

How long does the entire process take?

How long is a piece of string? Due to the fact no two projects are the same we can't answer that without talking to you first. If you'd like to know more about our patented process then please read more here.

When can you start?

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What post migration support will I get?

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