A simple how to guide to move to Linux

With the uncertainty currently surrounding the future of Intel’s Itanium a lot of HPUX customers are planning to jump ship and move platforms.  Acardia have been talking to quite a few of these organisations; our initial through s would be that they would want to move to another UNIX (Solaris or AIX) however the consensus seems to be to move to an Open vendor agnostic OS but still use Enterprise grade servers from IBM or Oracle.

Red Hat has put together a simple 5 step migration guide:

Migration Steps

Step1: Examine existing infrastructure & determine equivalents
Compilers, APIs, utilities
Apache, sendmail, Gnome, DNS, provisioning, etc.
Estimated Time : 3-5 weeks
Step 2: Determine equivalents for third-party apps
Symantec NetBackup runs on RHEL
Veritas Cluster supported or can use Red Hat Resilient Storage Add-On
Vast majority of business applications supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Estimated Time :  2-8 weeks

Step 3: Measure organizational readiness & overall migration risks
Server sizing, SLAs, server refresh cycles, skills gaps, training, IT processes & practices, IT governance, etc.
Estimated Time : 3-5 weeks

Step 4: Develop strategic migration plan, roadmap, cost estimate
Produce detailed migration roadmap, scope of activities, detailed cost estimate
Estimated Time : 3-5 weeks

Step 5: Implement plan & employ support strategies
Workshops, training, service offerings

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