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>> How much would you be willing to pay for such a tool ...? @gus ... to me it would probably be worth the equivalent of 1-3 years of maintenance on a PDSOE license. Also it would have to be at least cheaper than the hiring a consultant, and asking him to work on a home-grown/custom migration. If there were a tool, then I would expect the development costs could be spread across all of the HP-UX customers who are considering plans to do the same migration. See the post from @jmarkhorst above. He says they took a year to make the plunge. And the consultant spent time refining the migration from 10+ hours down to 3.5 hours. I'm not sure if that was only one or multiple databases, nor how big the databases were. You would have to ask @jmarkhorst to be sure, but I would guess the overall consulting engagement took at least a week or two and costed them quite a bit, considering that the consultant was selected based on his specific expertise (possibly someone who had done prior cross-platform migrations). Let me ask you a similar question... how much would a pro2pro engagement (and rental) be if the goal is to simply migrate a 500 GB database in production from HP-UX to Windows? Would this be more than hiring a consultant who would do a home-grown migration? Would it be more than a dedicated, cross-platform migration tool (if such a thing existed)? I don't mean to imply that hiring a consultant is a waste of money. He probably adds more value than a tool would (ie. in terms of technology upgrades and optimizations). But earlier I mentioned that I'd frequently use such a tool to move HP-UX databases to windows for *development* purposes. In that scenario the difference in hardware (SSD, CPU differences between HP-UX and windows) would be more than enough compensation for any optimizations that we might be overlooking while moving the database.
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