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Migrating Solaris Applications to AIX

Anita Govindjee is a Consultant in the IBM Solutions Development group. She works on porting software vendors’ applications to the pSeries servers running AIX. Anita has more than ten years of experience working on UNIX platforms, including AIX, Solaris, and HPUX, doing software development in C, C++, and Java. She holds a BS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MS degree from Stanford University, both in Computer Science.
Vandana Kumar (vkumar@us.ibm.com), Senior AIX Consultant , IBM
Vandana Kumar is a Senior AIX Consultant at IBM. She works with many software vendors in porting and tuning their applications on AIX. Her specialization is in AIX kernel's linking and loading mechanisms.
Glen Chalemin (gchalemi@us.ibm.com), Senior AIX Consultant, IBM
Glen "Tex" Chalemin is a Senior AIX Consultant at IBM in Austin, TX. He was part of the original AIX 1.0 development team. He has worked with customers and ISVs in porting and running applications on AIX. He currently works primarily with PeopleSoft in porting and tuning their applications on AIX.
Nam Keung (namkeung@us.ibm.com), Senior Programmer, IBM
Nam Keung is a Senior Programmer for IBM Corporation in Austin, TX. He has worked in the area of AIX ISDN communication, AIX SOM/DSOM development, AIX Multimedia development, NT Clustering technology and Java performance. His current assignment involves helping ISVs in porting, deploying applications, performance tuning, and education for the pSeries platform. He has been a programmer with IBM since 1987.
Lee Cheng (chenglc@us.ibm.com), Senior Consultant, IBM
Lee Cheng currently works as a Senior Consultant for pSeries and AIX software vendors. She provides support to them in the areas of application benchmarks, performance tuning, application porting, and internationalization. Before joining the RS/6000 ISV Technical Support group, she was a developer for compilers and the AIX system management component. She holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.
Brad Cobb, Senior Technical Consultant, IBM
Brad Cobb is a Senior Technical Consultant for IBM's Solutions Development Group, where he assists independent software vendors to enable their applications on pSeries servers. Brad has over ten years experience porting applications to AIX, with more than six years experience working for IBM. During which he's worked with various application types that have allowed him to file five patent applications, publish several articles, and speak at developer conferences.
Wayne Huang (huangw@us.ibm.com), Senior Consultant, IBM
Wayne Huang is a Senior Consultant for pSeries and AIX servers with a focus on e-business, banking, finance, and securities industries. He provides AIX support to ISVs in the areas of application design, problem determination, system performance tuning, and application benchmarks. He holds a BS in Physics from National Taiwan University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary:  Need to migrate applications from the SUN Solaris platform to the IBM AIX® platform?

Date:  24 Mar 2005 (Published 01 May 2002)
Level:  Introductory
Activity:  1770 views

In most cases, migration will require nothing more than a simple recompile. But there are exceptions. In this paper, the IBM authors discuss various migration scenarios and focus on the instances that require changes to the application source or to the way the application is built for an easy move from Solaris to AIX.



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Anita Govindjee is a Consultant in the IBM Solutions Development group. She works on porting software vendors’ applications to the pSeries servers running AIX. Anita has more than ten years of experience working on UNIX platforms, including AIX, Solaris, and HPUX, doing software development in C, C++, and Java. She holds a BS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MS degree from Stanford University, both in Computer Science.

Vandana Kumar is a Senior AIX Consultant at IBM. She works with many software vendors in porting and tuning their applications on AIX. Her specialization is in AIX kernel's linking and loading mechanisms.

Glen "Tex" Chalemin is a Senior AIX Consultant at IBM in Austin, TX. He was part of the original AIX 1.0 development team. He has worked with customers and ISVs in porting and running applications on AIX. He currently works primarily with PeopleSoft in porting and tuning their applications on AIX.

Nam Keung is a Senior Programmer for IBM Corporation in Austin, TX. He has worked in the area of AIX ISDN communication, AIX SOM/DSOM development, AIX Multimedia development, NT Clustering technology and Java performance. His current assignment involves helping ISVs in porting, deploying applications, performance tuning, and education for the pSeries platform. He has been a programmer with IBM since 1987.

Lee Cheng currently works as a Senior Consultant for pSeries and AIX software vendors. She provides support to them in the areas of application benchmarks, performance tuning, application porting, and internationalization. Before joining the RS/6000 ISV Technical Support group, she was a developer for compilers and the AIX system management component. She holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.

Brad Cobb is a Senior Technical Consultant for IBM's Solutions Development Group, where he assists independent software vendors to enable their applications on pSeries servers. Brad has over ten years experience porting applications to AIX, with more than six years experience working for IBM. During which he's worked with various application types that have allowed him to file five patent applications, publish several articles, and speak at developer conferences.

Wayne Huang is a Senior Consultant for pSeries and AIX servers with a focus on e-business, banking, finance, and securities industries. He provides AIX support to ISVs in the areas of application design, problem determination, system performance tuning, and application benchmarks. He holds a BS in Physics from National Taiwan University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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