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Micro Focus and m2o Successfully Migrate Legacy Applications
to Windows Platform
Oxford, UK - October 18, 2004 - Micro
Focus International Ltd. (Micro Focus), today announced from
Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2004 that it has once again
successfully partnered with m2o (Move2open), a leading provider
of data migration and application conversion technologies, to
migrate critical legacy applications from the proprietary
mainframe environment to the more open and extensible Microsoft®
Windows® platform. Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha
(CSO) joins Tulane University as one of the most recent
organizations to have realized the cost benefits of moving off
the mainframe to the lower cost Windows solution. Both m2o and
Micro Focus are members of the Mainframe Migration Alliance, a
consortium of technology and service providers committed to
helping customers migrate application workload from the
mainframe to the Windows platform.
CSO decided to move critical mainframe applications to Windows
for two primary reasons. First, were high hardware and software
costs associated with maintaining a mainframe environment, and
second was difficulty finding and retaining personnel trained in
the proprietary CA-IDEAL language and CA-Datacom database. Using
the services of m2o and technology provided by Micro Focus, CSO
converted its CA-IDEAL application portfolio to new COBOL code
using SQL Server databases on the Windows platform.
"We were delighted with the results of our move off the
mainframe to Windows," said Eric Kennedy, chief information
officer at CSO. "Instead of paying the high mainframe hardware
and software costs for proprietary legacy systems, we now have
open, industry standard COBOL systems running on Windows
servers. The migration has reduced our operating costs with
minimal risk, freeing up IT resources for revenue generating
projects."
"This is not the first time we have teamed with Micro Focus to
move proprietary CA-IDEAL and CA-Datacom on the mainframe to
COBOL and SQL Server on the Windows platform," said Nick Jones,
director of sales at m2o. "Our expertise in language and
database conversions along with the "Lift & Shift" approach to
platform migration from Micro Focus is a win-win for customers
like CSO looking to reduce costs by moving off the mainframe."
"We are delighted to be partnering with m2o to unlock the value
of our customers' legacy," said Ian Archbell, vice president of
product management at Micro Focus. "Once again a customer has
seen the advantages of lifting and shifting application workload
to the modern Windows environment to reduce costs and increase
business agility."
About m2o
m2o is a leading provider of data migration and
application conversion solutions that unlock the value of
relational databases and legacy systems. m2o specializes in
transforming legacy applications, including automated
conversions from CA-IDEAL to open languages such as COBOL and
Java and migrations from CA-Datacom to open databases such as
CA-Ingres, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. m2o provides automated
conversion tools and migration services that offer wide platform
coverage, exceptional accuracy and clear Return on Investment
that are unmatched by any other vendor or solution. m2o has over
ten years experience with a worldwide customer base of blue-chip
organizations that benefit from its unique expertise and
automated tools.
Contact Details:
Nick Jones (Sales Director)
m2o Limited
The Oxford Centre for Innovation
Mill Street
Oxford, OX2 0JX
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