Honeywell

Honeywell, a global manufacturing giant, has experienced significant transformations over the past 75 years, expanding its business from chemical production to aerospace, automotive, and beyond. This growth was fueled by multiple mergers and acquisitions, and as part of its evolution, Honeywell recognized the need to consolidate and migrate its aerospace applications to a more efficient platform.

With applications deployed on platforms from HP, Sun, and Compaq, Honeywell decided that moving to a single platform would significantly reduce operational costs and mitigate reliance on vendors with unclear future strategies. After a competitive bidding process involving IBM and other major vendors, Honeywell selected IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX (IBM’s version of Linux) as their new platform.

Sector7 was instrumental in helping IBM secure the bid by rapidly migrating a substantial quantity of application code for the Proof of Concept (POC). The POC migration involved nearly six million lines of C and Fortran code, successfully ported within just two months between May and June 1999.

• Consolidated over 200 servers into a unified Linux footprint.
• Migrated over 100,000,000 lines of Fortran and C code from HP, Sun, and Compaq platforms to IBM RS/6000 systems.
• Demonstrated rapid application migration and consolidation capabilities, completing the POC in two months.
• Utilized Sector7’s 20+ years of experience in Linux application and hardware migration for a successful transition.

Following the success of the POC, IBM and Sector7 were selected to consolidate thousands of Linux systems and migrate millions of lines of application code. Honeywell was confident in their ability to handle this large-scale consolidation project, knowing that Sector7’s expertise in software porting and consolidation would provide them with a future-proof migration solution.