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With the growing popularity of the Linux operating system, it's no surprise that many IT professionals and engineers are examining what it might take to move their existing applications and development environments to Linux. Whether you are thinking of adding Linux as an alternate deployment platform for your code or doing your primary development there, porting to Linux need not be difficult—particularly if your UNIX applications are written to common standards. Here, we provide a roadmap for those who are contemplating using Linux on Intel. This course begins by outlining some reasons you might want to port your application from Sun Solaris to Linux on Intel and spotlighting two customers who have done so. It looks at potential migration issues and offers a porting roadmap to help you. It highlights useful general and Intel development tools, as well as the IBM eServer xSeries, X-Architecture and BladeCenter technology. It offers outsourced migration alternatives and, finally, it points you toward additional resources that might be of help in the migration process.

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