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• IBM preps Power6 by putting AIX 5.3 on life support 2 years, 6 months ago
  
  IBM's Power6 push began this week with a tweak to AIX support. In a letter to customers, IBM vowed to support future updates to AIX 5.3 for an additional two years. This appears to be IBM's Power6 concession, since the vendor, according to our sources, will announce Power6 systems this month and ship them in the middle of the year but won't have AIX 5.4 available for months.
• Migrating Active Directory into Linux 3 years, 1 month ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "Although Windows and Linux can provide similar functionality, you won't find one-to-one matching features when you are migrating an Active Directory repository to Linux. In this tip, an expert describes two methods for migrating user information from AD into Linux."
• Clearing Linux desktop migration hurdles 3 years, 1 month ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "Frank van Wensveen helps users begin their desktop migration away from Windows. In the first part of this series, he describes different user demographics and the criteria for determining whether to migrate or not."
• Versora Progression Desktop 2.0 review 3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux."
• Free proprietary lock-in: Middleware app servers 3 years, 4 months ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "Consider Red Hat's Java EE-based JBoss as the open source, enterprise-ready answer to your Windows-to-Linux migrations. This application server comes with migration program support services and certified system integrators to facilitate enterprise-level migration."
• Migrating applications from Windows to Linux/Unix 3 years, 4 months ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "If you're planning a Win-to-Lin migration, it's important to consider how factors like platform-specific and -independent apps and source-ported apps will affect your future."
• Sendmail to Qmail migration 3 years, 5 months ago
  
  Aneesh P K writes "A challenging task for any sysadmin implementing a Migration, would be to migrate all the email accounts from one Mail server to another preserving all the settings, such as usernames and passwords. This article explains how to migrate email accounts/mailboxes from a sendmail server to a Qmail server."
• Mactel Linux up and running 3 years, 9 months ago
  
  sjvn writes "While we don't know how Edgar 'Gimli' Hucek did it yet, what we do know is that he appears to be the first to get Linux running on a Mactel. It had been expected that porting Linux to a Mactel would happen relatively quickly, unlike, say porting Windows to the same hardware. But, although there were rumors that Red Hat Inc. engineers were working on it, the honor of getting there first goes to Hucek."
• Sweet benefits for BDO Seidman SugarCRM migration 3 years, 10 months ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "When an internal CRM application needed a performance boost at national financial firm BDO Seidman, the answer lay in open source SugarCRM."
• Resolvo Launches MoveOver Standard Version 4.0.0 4 years, 1 month ago
  
  Alicia Loh writes "Singapore's Resolvo Systems has officially announced the release of their latest MoveOver Standard Version 4.0.0 that supports Novell Linux Desktop 9 and Linspire Five-0. MoveOver Standard is a user-friendly, wizard-driven migration tool, targeted at home and individual users, to migrate the entire Windows environment to a new Linux Desktop in just 2 simple steps."
• In Pursuit of Good Desktop Linux: Ease of Use and Ease of Migration Overview -- KDE, GNOME, and 4 years, 3 months ago
  
  The look, feel, and features of the Linux desktop metaphor and environment are important ingredients of a good desktop Linux. Experienced Linux users can, of course, implement and configure their desktops to look, feel, and function almost any way they wish.
• DesktopOS.com Interviews Joseph Cheek regarding Lycoris and Mandriva 4 years, 5 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "What Follows is an interview with Joseph Cheek President and CEO of Lycoris and Tim Mullins founder and webmaster of DesktopOS.com regarding the recent acquisition of Lycoris by Mandriva."
• Dutch Agency Equips 200 Users With NX-based KDE Desktops 4 years, 5 months ago
  
  Sarah Dryell writes "KDE.net writes: "Last weekend at Annahoeve in Achtmaal the Dutch Refugee Council of Midden Gelderland announced that they succesfully completed a pilot where they migrated 100 machines and 200 users using NX technology and the KDE desktop. Jasper van der Marel held a presentation during the Dutch KDE-PIM meeting where he explained how the current setup was done."
• Solaris to Linux migration step-by-step workplan 4 years, 6 months ago
  
  IBM offers a Solaris-to-Linux migration roadmap to guide in your porting and rehosting efforts with a step-by-step workplan. Use these resources to analyze, plan, and educate yourself about the features, functions and benefits of Linux. Find information to set up your development environment, as well as, porting, compiling, testing and optimizing your migration to Linux.
• Migration prep, part 2: Comparing MySQL and MS SQL 4 years, 8 months ago
  
  Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "Microsoft SQL Server has features that can’t be found in MySQL 4, according to Mike Sheffey, CEO of migration tool vendor Versora. But that situation is probably temporary. In our second installment on migrating to MySQL, Sheffey explains what you need to know about those differences."
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