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Legacy migration forum formed by industry leaders to help reduce the high costs of maintaining and modernizing mainframe environmentsOXFORD, UK (PRWEB) October 1, 2004 -- MOVE2OPEN (m2o), a leading provider of data migration and application conversion technologies, today announced that it has joined Microsoft Corporations Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) to help legacy customers migrate their critical operations off the mainframe onto more open environments.MMA is a group of companies that are working together to help customers migrate workloads off of the mainframe and onto the Microsoft platform. The MMAs goal is to help customers reduce the high cost of maintaining and modernizing their aging mainframe environments by making it easy to migrate mainframe applications, data, process & people to open platforms and environments. The MMA represents a group of industry partners (ISVs and SIs) that together provide an alternative roadmap for mainframe customers enabling them to adapt to their changing IT environments, save time and money and also evolve & protect their current investments in the mainframe.The MMA alliance is now expanding to include 11 new partners, among them m2o, bringing the total MMA membership to 17 partners. These companies are united by their commitment to offer customers a more agile, low risk alternative to the legacy nature of the mainframe. Along with the addition of these key industry partners, the MMA also announced the launch of its website, http://www.mainframemigration.org, to provide information for customers wishing to explore options for migrating off the mainframe. MMA is the perfect forum to raise awareness of the power of automated solutions to migrate customers off the mainframe and onto open platforms and environments, explains Nick Jones, m2o Director of Sales. m2o is a world leader in the automated conversion of CA-IDEAL to open languages and automated migration of CA-Datacom to open databases. The MMA migration portal is a tremendous opportunity to evangelize the benefits of legacy modernization with all of the associated advantages such as flexibility, cost control and agility.About MMAThe Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) is a group of companies that are working together to help customers migrate workloads off of the mainframe and onto the Microsoft platform. The Alliance represents a group of companies that have their interests aligned in making Mainframe Migrations easier and more efficient for customers. The Mainframe Migration Alliance provides a community and focal point for the collection and dissemination of information for migrating off the mainframe.MMA Web: http://www.mainframemigration.org/ m2o on MMA: http://www.mainframemigration.org/ShowPartner.aspx?PartnerID=130 About m2om2o is a leading provider of data migration and application conversion solutions that unlock the value of relational databases and legacy systems. m2o specializes in transforming legacy applications, including automated conversions from CA-IDEAL to open languages such as COBOL and Java and migrations from CA-Datacom to open databases such as CA-Ingres, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. m2o provides automated conversion tools and migration services that offer wide platform coverage, exceptional accuracy and clear Return on Investment that are unmatched by any other vendor or solution. m2o has over ten years experience with a worldwide customer base of blue-chip organizations that benefit from its unique expertise and automated tools. For more information, access the m2o web site at: www.move2open.com or call us on: +44 1865 812048.Media Contacts: Contact: Huw Price Managing Directorm2o LimitedThe Oxford Centre for InnovationMill StreetOxford, OX2 0JXPhone: +44 1865 812048Email: Web: http://www.move2open.com/
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