The Itanium Solutions Alliance has launched a programme
aimed at easing migration from legacy Sparc Solaris platforms to
Intel Itanium 2 architecture.
The move, announced at the alliance’s Itanium Solutions Summit
conference in San Francisco, is part of its mission to boost
migration from proprietary computing platforms to open, industry
standard solutions based on Itanium architecture.
In June the group of enterprise and technical software suppliers
announced more than 60 firms had joined its ranks.
Under the alliance’s new ISV Platform Expansion programme,
independent software suppliers with applications specifically
written for Sparc Solaris can use QuickTransit technology from
specialist software provider Transitive Corporation to allow them
to run on Itanium-based platforms without source code or binary
changes.
Bob Wiederhold, chief executive of Transitive Corporation, said,
“As a new member of the ISA, we will provide licences and support
to ISV member companies which are interested in running their
Solaris applications on the newest generation of Itanium platforms
– immediately.”
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