Unix Application Migration Guide (Patterns & Practices)

Because migration to UNIX can encompass a vast range of topics, this guide deals with the core areas of code ports and migrating applications to the Win32 environment. Therefore, this guide does not deal with the following topics:

• Administrative migrations (for example, moving user accounts)

• Database migrations, such as Oracle or MySQL to Microsoft SQL Server 2000

• Migrating Java 2 Enterprise Edition to Visual Studio or .NET

• Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP or iPlanet to Windows

• Infrastructure concerns

• Applications written in languages other than C, C++, or Fortran

• Apache to Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) migration and converting Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs to ISAPI.NET

For more information about these topics, see the following Web sites:

• Migrating Oracle Databases to SQL Server 2000

  See the white paper at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/deployment/2000/MigrateOracle.asp

• Migrating Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP platform to Windows 2000

  See the white paper at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/Miglamp.asp

• Planning a Web server migration project

  See the article at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/planning.asp

• Migrating Microsoft Hotmail

  See the technical case study at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/depopt/hotmailg.asp