References

LeasePak (from NETSOL www.netsol.com ) is an extremely versatile and comprehensive enterprise lease loan management system that helps users track, account for, and efficiently manage lease and loan portfolios. LeasePak provides a complete solution for all lease and loan accounting, asset management, and operational needs, and is scalable to manage vehicle and equipment portfolios of any size.

LeasePak incorporates both client-server and Web-based architectures; it runs on the SUN Solaris, HP/UX, and Linux platforms using the Oracle or Sybase relational database systems. LeasePak can be tailored to fit the business processes and reporting needs of virtually any leasing enterprise.

Prior to 1995 LeasePak was provided on VAX VMS / OpenVMS computer systems. Our clients started requesting the excellent functionality of LeasePak but on more open systems such as Linux. We contacted numerous software vendors that provide solutions in application migrations; however only one organization, Sector7 had the experience, capability and references that we at McCue felt comfortable entrusting our application to.

We partnered with Sector7 and eight months later had a production version of LeasePak on HP/UX installed at our first client. In the intervening years as technology matured, we added Sun Solaris, Linux operating systems, a relational database (Sybase and Oracle), client server architectures and GUI. At all times Sector7 have been a development partner in the truest meaning of the term. They were available practically 24x7 to support our development and migration effort. Thanks to Sector7 and our own dedicated development staff LeasePak/UX has been installed on Linux and has provided the leasing industry particularly many Fortune 500 corporations run their mission critical leasing business.

Sector7 have met and exceeded our expectations every step of the way and continually through out our business relationship, which spans 20+ years."

Virgil Burton
NETSOL

"The application of technology to solve business issues is paramount to competitive advantage.

IBM has utilized Sector7's services in hundreds of enterprise customer engagements over the last seven years. The migration factory provided solutions that helped align our customers' businesses for competitive agility and a better return on their investments. The Sector7 team utilizes a proven methodology. Their project management and software engineering skills provide IBM customers with exceptional results delivered on-time and on-budget -- no matter how complex the environment."

Rod Adkins
Vice President, Development
IBM Systems & Technology Group

As GM of IBM pSeries division, Rod was the force behind the IBM pSeries AIX computer systems and the POWER 4 architecture. Rod moved to become GM of IBM's Pervasive computing division, and has recently taken over as head of R&D for IBM systems group.

"Telstra, Australia's major Teleco, required a critical overhaul to the applications managing the Data Products environment. It was essential the project delivered with absolute certainty given the mission critical nature of the applications and time to market pressures for product developments.

Telstra did a global search for a specialist services organization capable of handling the complex migration with the assurance required. Sector7 was selected due to their track record, experience (migrating VAX VMS / OpenVMS to SUN SOLARIS) and project planning detail. The project had many features that made it not "run of the mill".

(a) the application controlled the order capture and automatic provisioning of data networks for the majority of large corporations across Australia
(b) the application was mission critical and required very complex planning and management to ensure stability in the corporate data networks and service billing
(c) the application used an very old version of DEC's RDB utilizing a pre-SQL language (RDML) for conversion to Oracle
(d) the code was written in VMS PASCAL (1.5m LINES OF CODE) which needed to be converted to C. The Linux PASCAL compiler was not compatible due to DEC extensions
(e) the application used over 200 complex VMS system service calls including asynchronous QIO to X.25 and X.29 device for the provisioning of corporate switched data networks
(f) the application had over 1500 undocumented binary protocols that controlled older switches that required on the fly bit wise conversions
(g) there were critical and absolute deadlines to meet and Telstra required a market competitive fixed priced project completion schedule .

Sector7 performed the majority of the project in the USA and then completed the final testing, QA and production deployment in Melbourne Australia.

The Linux/C version of the application has been operational for 4 years + and has permitted Telstra to extend product offerings, move forward with major process changes and enhance and stabilize data network provisioning.

During this time Telstra was continually impressed with the professionalism and dedication of the Sector7 organization. When our code threw unexpected 'curved balls' at them the Sector7 team worked 18 hours days to recapture the time.

Sector7 continually delivered more than expected from the initial project scoping and planning exercises through all release phases, on time and under budget."

Norm Beck
SDMN Manager
Telstra

"This is just a quick note to let you know that we are more than satisfied with the results of our migration project kick-off week...

In reality, we think words like “amazed” or “thrilled” or “delighted” may be more appropriate to describe our reactions to the enormity of what [you were] able to help us achieve with the Sector7 B-Tran/B2 tool set in such a short span of time.

In one week, we managed to layout a new system plan on Linux; transfer all enterprise data files and attendant source code programs; preprocess and compile those programs (approximately 2,500 in number); debug, correct and recompile same under the Source Code Control System;setup, test and implement development procedures; setup, test and debug user account structures;debug, test and correct both Endian and scale numeric problems; setup system backup procedures;configure a variety of environmental issues for our runtime system; and devise a phasing plan for implementing full production of our legacy system on Linux significantly faster than we originally thought possible.

All of the above (and more) was accomplished in just one week! The bottom line is: at every turn Sector7 has exceeded our best expectations, thanks to both the quality of the products and the personal and professional skills of [your staff ]. Both are to be commended.

Our legacy system has been reborn - so to speak - thanks to Sector7. In a marketplace that is fraught with hollow promises and vaporware, it is so refreshing to encounter a company with software products that not only work as advertised, but in many ways exceed our best expectations. In our opinion, Sector7 is one of the best technological investments made by AMCO Engineering Co. in a long time. The operational dividends should prove to be many and marked.

Both of us can only begin to imagine what we might accomplish in the future with these new tools!"

Linda J. Nickrand
Thomas P. Ryan
AMCO Engineering

ADD Systems has offices in Flanders, New Jersey, Montreal, Canada, and Orlando, Florida. Known jointly as the ADD Companies , we have been developing computer software for Petroleum, Propane, Gasoline and Lubricant distributors since 1973. The flagship information technology product of ADD Systems is ADD Energy ™, an operational, financial and field software system that enables our customers to streamline their operations, compete effectively, and maximize profits. This product focuses on the needs of home heat fuel dealers (fuel oil and propane) as well as gasoline and lubricant distributors. The flagship products of ADD South are PAMS and PowerSStore2 ®. Like ADD Energy these products provide comprehensive software for energy distributors, however with a focus on wholesalers and convenience store/gas station operators.

Our products first came to life in 1973 on a PDP-8/E, upgraded to the first commercially available PDP11 in 1976 and eventually to VAX running VMS / OpenVMS in late 1983. While the VAX architecture and subsequently the ALPHA met our needs perfectly, the user community was becoming more aware of Linux, and more willing to adopt it as a bona fide commercial operating system. So we began a search for a substantial organization that could help us in our next and most complex migration yet, porting our software to Linux.

In 1992 I met Jon Power from Sector7 and believed that I had found the partner with which to move ADD Systems forward for the foreseeable future. Sector7 provided both the services and tool sets for product migration that ADD absolutely required. At the time we had in excess of one million lines of complex VAX BASIC code, many large RMS files (which we have now replaced with relational databases), a heavy reliance on VMS system services, DCL, Forms Management, and most importantly, we wanted to have one set of source code for both VMS / OpenVMS and Linux.

Sector7 (as promised) provided us the expertise we needed to have our Energy Management software operational on Linux. Over time, and with the assistance of the products and services of Sector7, our Software became operational on many other popular flavors of Linux, such as AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, LinuxWare, and most recently, Linux. It is now 12 years later, and Sector7 still provides ADD Systems with expert consulting on a multitude of complex IT related issues. Both the business and personal relationships are stronger today than ever. We know that should we ever have a difficult IT issue to deal with; our friends at Sector7 will always be there to help. The high quality, long lasting relationship between our two organizations has prompted me to write this reference for the Sector7 web site."

Al Friedman
Sr. Vice President
ADD System

As most of you know, we began the cut over to the new Patron Database System Sunday night. The new system was up and running in the no update interactive mode by approximately 5:00 AM Monday morning with all system functionality available by 1:00 PM. As of this morning we have completed posting dailies for Casino day June 2nd, and a four day MWB extract for May 30, 31, June 1 and June 2. Other than a couple of minor configuration issues that were quickly corrected, we had a successful cut over.

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their hard work and support since we began this project in December, 1999. You were a great team, and I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with all of you.

Pam Rooks
Project Director
Harrah’s Entertainment