Transitive(R) Corporation, the leading provider of software that
enables transportability of software applications across multiple
hardware platforms, announced today that the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
has successfully deployed Solaris/SPARC applications on x86-based
servers in a virtualized environment using QuickTransit(R) for
Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64. This deployment has allowed the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange to extend the benefits of its successful
data center consolidation project to its legacy Solaris/SPARC
applications, while reducing both the time and cost of migration to
new server platforms.
Transitive´s QuickTransit application transport solution enables
software applications written for one processor/OS pair to run on
another platform without the need to ´port´ or rewrite code. In the
situation where applications are transported from older, legacy
hardware to the latest, more powerful x86-based servers, QuickTransit
customers often find that performance increases dramatically. For
example, a funds-management application at the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange now runs considerably faster on a modern Sun x86-based
platform with QuickTransit installed, compared to its previous
performance on the original SPARC-based server.
"QuickTransit has allowed the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to extend
the benefits of data center virtualization to its Solaris/SPARC
workloads and at the same time boost the performance of those
applications significantly," said Bernard Simon, Head of IT,
Luxembourg Stock Exchange. "We are impressed with the ability of
QuickTransit to run a broad range of Solaris/SPARC applications on our
x86-based infrastructure without the need to re-write or modify those
applications. QuickTransit is also a great fit with our VMware
virtualization solution, and allows us to consolidate multiple
Solaris/SPARC workloads onto a smaller number of x86 servers."
"In financial services, data center efficiency is critical for
business success, and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange is an excellent
example of how customers in this sector can enjoy immediate benefits
from deploying QuickTransit," said Ian Robinson, vice president of
Marketing for Transitive Corporation. "This deployment also highlights
the many advantages of running QuickTransit in a virtualized
environment, which include easy mobility of workloads, improved
disaster recovery, and flexible system configuration. Those benefits,
which were previously only available for x86-based workloads, can now
be extended via QuickTransit to Solaris/SPARC workloads from legacy
servers, thereby freeing up more data center space and increasing
savings on power and maintenance costs."
QuickTransit technology currently supports the PC, workstation and
server markets, and is poised to expand into many other technology
platforms in the future. By breaking the software/hardware bonds,
organizations can transition to newer, higher performance,
low-maintenance, energy-efficient platforms, without spending valuable
human or financial resources on re-writing legacy software. In the
server market, for example, this means that Transitive´s global
customers can quickly and easily remove outdated and inefficient IT
hardware from their data centers without disruption to users, while at
the same time extending the useful life of key software applications.
This transformation also allows organizations to more rapidly
standardize on commodity-priced IT infrastructure, which delivers
operational cost savings, improved service levels, simplified
maintenance, faster responsiveness as well as lower energy costs and
reduced environmental impact.
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is a pioneer and leader in providing solutions that
allow the transportability of software applications across multiple
hardware platforms. The company´s QuickTransit solutions allows
software applications that have been compiled for one
processor/operating system to run on another without any source code
or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. The
QuickTransit application transport solution allows data center
managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and
easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern,
industry-standard platforms without incurring the costs and delays of
porting projects, and with no disruption to end users. QuickTransit
technology also facilitates computer companies´ migration to new
hardware platforms; dramatically reduces software developers´ cost,
risk, and time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms;
and makes significantly more software available for more hardware
platforms. QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple´s
Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of
Apple´s Intel-based computers.
Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a
research and development team in Manchester, England. The company is
privately held, with funding participation by Pond Venture Partners
Ltd., Manchester Technology Fund, Crescendo Ventures and Accel
Partners. For more information, please visit Transitive´s website at
www.transitive.com.
About the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
The Luxemburg Stock Exchange began operations as a limited company
in 1929 and has since gained extensive experience in the listing and
trading of securities from many regions. Today the Exchange has two
markets, Regulated and Euro MTF, with 28,000 international bond issues
representing 60% of the international bond segment. It lists 6,500
investment funds in around twenty currencies, as well as 200 Global
Depositary Receipts from issuers based in emerging economies. The
Luxemburg Stock Exchange (Bourse du Luxembourg, BdL) is the major
European listing centre for corporate bonds.
On April 2, 2006, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange announced a
partnership agreement with Euronext.
The agreement has two objectives :
(1) providing for an exchange of technology between the two
organizations, and
(2) developing trading in the corporate bond segment.
For more information about the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, visit:
www.bourse.lu
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