The HP OverEasy product portfolio is a collection of highly powerful and easy-to-use products and tools to help transition your applications from HP 9000 to HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity systems. The HP OverEasy portfolio consists of the following products: HP ARIES, HP Mixed Mode Translator, HP 9000 Cross Development for Integrity and the HP-UX STK. This portfolio of products and tools helps minimize and lower change costs involved with moving to Integrity systems.
HP provides proven, low risk approaches to moving your applications from HP 9000 systems to HP-UX 11i v3 on HP Integrity servers easily and cost-effectively, preserving your software assets and freeing you to take advantage of the latest advancements in HP's strategic UNIX® operating system.
HP-UX 11i compatibility (PDF, 121 KB) ensures that your applications will run on the latest release of the operating system, and on HP Integrity servers. Applications that run on HP 9000 systems will run on Integrity servers, if your applications are written to published programming interfaces. We guarantee it.
You have options ranging from simplest to optimised performance. Choose the approach based on the requirements your application must satisfy. But choose the future-ready platform: HP-UX 11i v3 on HP Integrity servers.
The approaches are described below.
Copy your HP 9000 application to Integrity servers and run it. The application will automatically run under the ARIES dynamic translator, which ships with every HP-UX 11i Integrity server. No modification to the application; no need to recompile.
Wondering about performance? It depends on where you're coming from and which Integrity server you go to. Most applications will run faster on Integrity servers than on the similarly-sized HP 9000 system. Exception: applications doing heavy floating point operations.
Don't have time to do more? Use ARIES. Can't find the source code? Use ARIES.
Copy your source code from the HP 9000 environment to the Integrity server and recompile the application.
HP provides numerous tools to help recompile your HP-UX 11i applications to Integrity systems. The highly optimizing HP C/ANSI C compiler and the HP aC++ compiler provide advanced optimization capabilities such as Profile-based Optimizations (PBO) and Interprocedural Optimizations (IPO) among others. The HP Code Advisor tool does detailed source code analysis to detect porting issues, code errors, and security vulnerabilities. The HP-UX 11i STK helps transition you to the next version of HP-UX 11i from HP 9000 systems to Integrity by doing source code analysis.
Your application will run natively and faster, taking advantage of the Itanium-optimised HP-UX 11i v3 UNIX® operating system kernel.
Running Java applications? The HP Mixed Mode Translator provides the ability for Integrity Java Virtual Machines running on Integrity servers to call HP 9000 Java Native Interface (JNI) functions.
You get native Java performance, without having to rebuild your application.
Got HP 9000 scripts making calls to HP 9000 libraries? They'll work on Integrity servers. The HP 9000 Cross Development Environment for Integrity delivers an integrated cross-compilation and linking environment for HP 9000 applications on Integrity servers
Why the substantial savings and increased productivity?
Consolidation projects benefit from HP's leadership Integrity-server based virtualisation, power efficiency and energy savings – cost savings of more than 50%, reduced support and software costs, and space savings.
Your HP support contract entitles you to upgrade at no charge. That includes the right to use the larger, updated set of software delivered in the new HP-UX 11i v3 OEs.
Talk to your HP representative; together, let's update your mission-critical UNIX® environment for maximum cost-effectiveness and productivity. Rely on HP for future-ready UNIX®.
Did you know that EDS globally manages 1 million software applications and 2.3 billion lines of code?
However big your application is, you can trust HP-EDS to make the transition to newer HP platforms easier and cost effective. HP-EDS provides the following services as part of its portfolio of Application Services to help boost developer productivity and lessen overall IT spend over the life of the application, in addition to various other benefits:
