[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: OpenEdge Upgrade

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10.0B is old, but not 30 years old ;) We have helped a bunch of customers upgrade SXe from older releases than that. The Progress & Database upgrade is relatively easy and straight-forward. The adventures along the way are all application related although with SXe they aren't too bad because you can compile the code and that gives you a lot of flexibility. We see a lot of people moving from older HP, Solaris and AIX platforms to Linux and sometimes Windows. Basically, unless you have a very, very large system the case for "big iron" is getting very difficult to justify. HP and Solaris are pretty much dead ends. AIX is still viable and has a future but is hard to justify if you are not a bank or a multi-thousand user entity. I don't want to turn this into a sales pitch but the biggest mistake that we see most people make is waiting too long to get help planning the migration. We end up fixing or working around a lot of problems that would have been completely avoided if the customer had involved us (or another qualified firm) to help in the planning and provisioning of a new system. So it is good that you are asking! Your best friend in this process is to have a good history of the performance of your existing system. You can get that from us via ProTop Progress OpenEdge Monitoring with ProTop - White Star Software , free download here: demo.wss.com/download.php or from Progress' MDBA team and probably a few other places too. Such a history is invaluable in feeding a proper sizing exercise. The number one thing to avoid is: vendor hype -- anything that sounds too good to be true probably is. "Hyper converged" is the snake-oil du jour. And, as always, storage and virtualization vendors are lying whenever their lips move. If top-notch performance is your goal avoid virtualization and shared infrastructure (SAN or NAS). If you aren't focused on the ultimate in performance you can relax about that a bit but you still need to be careful. It is really easy to spend a ton of money on a SAN or VM solution and get really bad results. There were some good talks on these topics at EMEA PUG Challenge last week and there will be more at the PUG Challenge Americas next week: pugchallenge.org/index.html Plus you get to talk to a bunch of people who have done these sorts of things and know all about them. I'd drop everything and get to Nashua next week if I wanted to get the best info hot off the presses :)

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