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Sunny prospects

It’s no secret that the proposed acquisition of Sun by Oracle has got many Sun customers looking for options. But swapping out servers, especially Sun SPARC systems running mission-critical applications, is no simple task.

While IBM has been slashing it’s prices to lure Sun customers to a new home, recent articles from Server Watch and eWeek announced that HP’s “Sun Complete Care” program will now receive software support through partnerships with Microsoft, Novell, and Red Hat.

Sun Complete Care participants can choose between HP ProLiant servers and HP’s Itanium-based Integrity server line aimed at the mission-critical marketplace. Lorraine Bartlett, vice president of marketing strategy and operation for HP’s business-critical systems said:

“In working with customers, if they have their own custom code, we have a migration center that has a lot of expertise in migrating from Sparc to x86 or HP-UX on Integrity, or we work with an operating system partner to migrate Solaris apps to Windows or Linux.”

According to HP, about 350 Sun customers have made the move to HP over the past year.

Posted in Computationally Intensive Applications, Mainframe Modernization, Mission Critical Computing on December 30th, 2009 by | There are currently no Comments