Date:         Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:03:40 +0000
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From:         Stace Cameron
Subject:      Downsizing with NOMAD

My boss has asked me:

>>When the University (with us following) moves to a client-server
>>architecture, how portable will our Nomad systems be?
>>Should we consider Nomad on a RISC server?
>>Does it run under one of the Unix operating systems?
>>Or should we consider a PC based server?
>>The assumption here is that we will eventually move away from a
>>main-frame oriented environment and, hence, from main-frame Nomad.
>>Is the assumption sound as far as it relates to the use of Nomad?

A little background. The University is considering purchasing
Oracle's Govenrment Financials Package, Thus we will probably have
Oracle as the database engine, running on a RISC,UNIX or PC based
server.  We are a VM shop with approx 150 applications.
We have a wide range of applications, running from large(5M
rows, extracts from IMS dbs)  to small (2k) single user databases.

 My understanding of the situation is that we would move our current
N2 databases to Oracle databases and convert all our current mainframe
NOMAD code to  NOMAD code for whichever platform we choose.

What do I need to do to determine which of the 3 platforms to choose?
What is involved in the code conversion process? What questions have
I neglected to ask? What additional NOMAD products are required?

I suspect the choice of platform is more related to  ORACLE's
requirements than NOMAD's .

Thanks for any input.


Stace Cameron
Southern Illinois University - School of Medicine
scameron@siumed.edu
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