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: Many examples of how you would implement a common piece of UNIX code in the OS/2 2.0 environment will be discussed.
 * Memory management
 * Event handling
 * Graphical User Interfaces
 * Tools to build applications

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