Dropping the Mainframe Without Crushing the Users: Mainframe to Distributed UNIX in Nine Months
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@MISC{Epp_droppingthe,
author = {Peter Van Epp and Bill Baines},
title = {Dropping the Mainframe Without Crushing the Users: Mainframe to Distributed UNIX in Nine Months},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes the first phase of the evolution of the computing environment at Simon Fraser University from a centralized, long established, mainframe based computing environment to a distributed UNIX based computing environment. The first section of the paper gives a brief history of the site and some of the previous initiatives towards distributed computing. The second section describes the Task Force report that mandated a conversion to UNIX within 9 months and the plan that was developed to do that. The third section details the migration plan versus migration reality. We then extract from this experience the major issues encountered in converting from a mainframe environment to UNIX. We also mention some things that are taken for granted in the mainframe world that don't seem to exist in the UNIX world. This should be of interest to sites planning to convert from a mainframe to UNIX, and to UNIX vendors that are interested in selling machines in that market. We also describ...
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