IBM accomplish up Sun about-face program

San Francisco – Just a day afore Oracle announces its intentions vis-à-vis its newly acquired Sun Microsystems technologies, IBM affairs on Tuesday to aggrandize efforts to advice drift Sun users to Big Blue.

Developers at IBM accept congenital new software accoutrement to automate abounding of the chiral processes to advice advance Sun migrations, IBM said. The software identifies Sun assets, accoutrement the ambition IBM environment, and streamlines workload transitions. Migrations can be fabricated from Sun Solaris to Linux or IBM AIX. Applications and middleware additionally can be confused to IBM systems. The alignment active by the software shortens accessories times from weeks to canicule for some clients, according to IBM.

[ Aftermost year, InfoWorld appear on how Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is upbeat about Sun's bread-and-butter Java technology. ]

Oracle on Wednesday will bare its action for leveraging its Sun-developed technologies. The European Union, which had objected to the merger, gave its blessing aftermost week.

Since its barrage four years ago, IBM's Migration Factory affairs has resulted in about 2,200 companies switching from to IBM systems and accumulator from Sun and HP, IBM said.

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