HP3000/Image to Linix Red Hat/Oracle Back End

[Adrian Hudson]

Hi All,

We are currently in the early stages of planning a migration from
vanilla TurboImage and Powerhouse plus a handful of Cobol programs to
Red Hat Linux and Powerhouse with an Oracle backend.

I've already read some of the available documents, concerning
migration, from the IBM 'Cognos' site and, indeed, I've been involved
in several similar projects in the past, but never to Linux.

I'd just like the board to share any experiences/pitfalls/things to
look out for in a migration to Linux and I would also like anyone to
share their experiences of the tools available/methods to unload an
Image database and reload/perform data type migration into Oracle (or
any RDBMS).

Plus if anyone is available for Contract work in the South of the UK
(quite near Brighton) I would like to hear from them.

Best wishes to you all,


Adrian