Company Background
Migration Specialties International, Inc. is a privately held corporation. The company was founded in 1992 by Mr. Bruce Claremont in response to the closure of Digital Equipment Corporation's Center for Migration Services. Digital's Center for Migration Services was a corporate resource dedicated to moving software applications from competitor platforms to Digital hardware and software. At the time of the Center's closure, Mr. Claremont headed the IBM Midrange Migration Team.
Digital's closure of the Center for Migration Services eliminated their ability to deliver software migration services directly, creating the business opportunity that led to the formation of Migration Specialties. Since its founding, Migration Specialties has continued to deliver migration and OpenVMS solutions to Digital, then Compaq, and now HP. We maintained close ties with Digital under the ASAP program and Compaq under the CSA program. Migration Specialties currently participates in HP's DSPP and Intel's EAP programs.
Migration Specialties has an international clientele comprised of organizations large and small. We are a small company comprised of two full-time employees and a group of experienced consultants. While our size is small, our industry experience runs broad and deep.
Migration Specialties offers a couple of unique products and some highly specialized services. These are covered in more detail in the following sections. We deliver quality products and services on time at reasonable rates. We pride ourselves on excellence and honesty. We are experts in our chosen fields and will not sell you products or services we cannot support.
OpenVMS Services
Our founder has worked with the OpenVMS operating system, originally called VMS, since 1983. He watched VMS evolve into OpenVMS and migrate from the VAX to the Alpha, then from the Alpha to the Integrity platform. He's ported products and applications along the way and provided OpenVMS management and support services for over two decades. Our consultants also have extensive OpenVMS experience.
Our OpenVMS services are built around this wealth of experience and expertise. We maintain VAX, Alpha, and Integrity processors in-house and continue to work with OpenVMS applications and services. We believe OpenVMS is an outstanding operating system and continue to promote its use. We are active OpenVMS advocates within HP via our DSPP membership. Additional information concerning our OpenVMS services is available on our OpenVMS Services page.
Software Migration Services
Mr. Claremont started his IT career migrating applications from an IBM System/3 to a DEC VAX 11/730 in 1983. He's been involved with software migrations ever since, participating in migration projects from IBM, WANG, SPERRY, Univac, UNISYS, DEC, Compaq, and HP platforms. He developed most of the tools and procedures used by DEC to move IBM System/3X applications to OpenVMS.
By the time he founded Migration Specialties, Mr. Claremont had established a proven formula for assessing, planning, and delivering migration projects. Our migration service offerings are built around Mr. Claremont's experience and expertise in this area. Our migration strategy is concise, repeatable, and favors automation wherever possible. See our Migration Services page for more information.
Hardware Emulators
Porting applications to hardware emulators is a business our extensive software migration experience makes us well prepared to deliver. In many ways, hardware emulators simplify the software migration process. We have experience supplying HP1000, DEC PDP-11, DEC VAX, and DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha emulation solutions. See our Emulators page for more information.
Migration RPG
Migration RPG is one of our unique products. It is an extended version of the RPG II programming language based on IBM's RPG II implementation. It runs under the OpenVMS operation system. It is the only supported RPG compiler available for OpenVMS. Mr. Claremont has been involved with Migration RPG since its 1983 conception. See our Migration RPG page for additional information.
DIBOL to C Conversion
CBL is our other unique product. It's a DIBOL to C converter, capable of translating valid VAX or ANSI DIBOL source code to C. The product was originally developed by U.K. based Amethyst Computer Resources, Ltd. Migration Specialties acquired it in 1997 and continues to support it on a limited basis. While CBL is capable of producing code that will run on OpenVMS, Windows, and UNIX platforms, our technical expertise lies with OpenVMS. Thus, we only fully support CBL in the OpenVMS environment.
