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- "UNIX TO OS/2 2.0 MIGRATION WORKSHOP"
- DESCRIPTION & SURVEY
-
- This library file provides a more detailed description of a proposed
- workshop that would assist customers in porting their UNIX applications
- to the OS/2 2.0 environment. A message was posted to the 'Migration'
- forum section which briefly described this offering on 07/30/92.
-
- A survey is also attached that will provide us some feedback to
- determine the need for such a workshop for the UNIX community.
-
-
- WORKSHOP CONCEPT
- ================
- The workshop is one week long. It is a combination of classroom
- lectures and extensive hands-on lab sessions.
-
- The classroom lectures would concentrate on educating the student on the
- major differences/similarities between the 2 platforms. Examples of
- what some of the lectures would cover include:
- - Memory management
- - Event handling
- - Graphical User Interfaces
- - Tools to build applications
- Many examples of how you would implement a common piece of UNIX code in
- the OS/2 2.0 environment will be discussed.
-
- The lab sessions are the "meat" of the workshop. The customer would
- bring in the application that they wish to be ported and any associated
- tools that are required to build the application. This data would be
- installed on an appropriate piece of hardware (RISC 6000 or PS/2). A
- "target" PS/2 machine would also be provided to run the ported
- application. During the course of the week, the customer would work on
- porting pieces of their UNIX application to the OS/2 2.0 platform.
-
- The instructors for this workshop would be well-versed in both UNIX and
- OS/2 2.0. They will also act in a consulting capacity during the lab
- sessions.
-
- It is not the intent of this workshop to have a completely ported
- application by the end of the week. It is primarily a "jumpstart"
- session that facilitates a much faster porting process to be completed
- at a later date.
-
- HOW CAN YOU HELP US?
- ====================
- Actually in many ways. Let us know if you think there would be specific
- demand for this workshop. You can also give us suggestions on what
- should be included in the workshop and how it might be structured.
-
- Your responses to the following questions will help us in this
- determination. Add your own questions (and responses) if you think
- there is something that we should have asked.
-
- 1. Would you be interested in this workshop?
-
- 2. What is the timeframe that you would need for such an offering?
-
- 3. How many applications would you like ported?
-
- 5. What is the nature of your UNIX applications? (Check all that apply)
- _ Business
- _ Scientific
- _ Tool
- _ Other_________________________________
-
- 6. How many OS/2 licenses would be required to run your application in a
- production environment?
-
- 7. What would be the most common client/server target environment for
- these ported applications?
- _ Standalone OS/2 applications
- _ OS/2 clients and UNIX-based servers
- _ OS/2 clients and OS/2-based servers
- _ UNIX clients and OS/2-based servers
- _ Other_________________________________
-
- 8. What is the most common GUI in use by your UNIX applications?
- _ X Windows
- _ Motif
- _ Character-based
- _ Other_________________________________
-
- 9. What versions of UNIX do your applications currently run on?
-
- 10. What other features would you like to see incorporated into this
- workshop?
-
- 11. What other heavily followed forums or information services should we
- query to see if there is sufficient market demand for this workshop?
-
- Thank you for your time in responding to these questions. Please send
- your survey responses to CompuServe ID <71054, 1445>.
-
- Thank you.
-
- John Romano
-