There are many compelling reasons to migrate from Windows to Linux, ranging from system security and stability concerns to the well publicized financial benefits of basing your company's IT infrastructure on open source solutions.

While the reasons for migrating from Windows to Linux may be obvious you will quickly discover that identifying the best path to achieving that migration is much harder. One common solution is a complete, ground up, rewrite of most of your application code - a costly and time consuming task with all the inherent risks involved in taking a stable application environment and re-writing it for a new platform. Another option is to rely on some form of Windows emulation layer on Linux to ease the migration thereby adding an additional layer of complexity between your application and the operating system - a layer over which you may have little or no control. Moreover, in the case of commercially available emulators, you are vulnerable to licensing and runtime costs - one of the very issues you are hoping to escape by migrating to Linux.

IST provides Windows to native Linux porting in a fraction of the time.

Over many years helping customers move from one platform to another IST has developed unique technology that enables us to rapidly port application code from Windows to Linux.

Our technology allows us to rapidly analyze the application's code base and automates the process of making intelligent, context sensitive code modifications to address new platforms and toolkits. The technology is scalable to handle large code bases across large numbers of source files. This approach is tried and tested, has been used for migration between a wide variety of platforms and has now been successfully instrumented to accelerate the porting of Windows applications to run natively on Linux.

Our automated porting technology allow us to rapidly accelerate the process of adapting your existing Windows code base to use Linux APIs in the safest way possible by minimizing the amount of change made to your existing code. The migration process also goes one step further by structuring the code in such a way as to abstract any toolkit and platform dependent code away from the application logic leaving well structured code that can easily be migrated to other platforms and toolkits should a future need arise.

The end result is a well-structured version of your application running natively on Linux. All this is achievable at a fraction of the time and costs normally associated with such a migration.

Finding out more

Alternatively email us at migration@ist.co.uk to find out more about our Windows to Linux migration solution or to discuss your project requirements, or call us in the US at 650 919 0200 or in Europe at +44 845 034 0961.

Additional information can also be found in our Windows to Linux FAQ.