Now that IBM Corp has withdrawn its embargo on Open RS/36, UK company Open Services Ltd, Isleworth, Middlesex, is following in the footsteps Universal Software Inc – and California Software Products International Inc – announcing that it is to begin marketing a migration product for IBM System/36 users, enabling them to move to the IBM AIX Unix environment. Open Services has picked-up Framingham, Massachusetts-based Liant Software Corp’s LPI Unix RPG II compiler to do the job, after, it says, Liant gave up marketing it in the US and left it in a bottom drawer. Open Services is offering a package of services to enable System/36 users to move to a variety of Unix environments, rather than going the AS/400 route. The migration software supports the System/36 control language and is claimed to offer a broader set of alternatives than Universal’s Open RS/36. The package, which includes training, but not the actual conversion of source code, is priced at between UKP5,000 and UKP10,000. Open Services has teamed with UK company SOS Ltd, which will offer a parallel hardware migration service where required.
