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| Tube Lines Uses Camwood's Technology Tube Lines announces it is using technology from application compatibility specialist Camwood to prepare for the move next year of its 2,500 users to the Windows Vista operating system. Camwood's appTitude application compatibility testing solution is helping the London Underground maintenance and upgrade company carry out its planning for a "business-as-usual" migration to be completed by the third quarter of 2008. Tube Lines is using Camwood's appTitude to determine quickly and accurately which applications will work with Vista and which will need remediation effort. It is planning to deploy Microsoft's virtualisation platform, SoftGrid, for applications which will not make the transition. appTitude is a client-server software solution that automates the application testing requirement for companies migrating to Microsoft Vista. appTitude draws from Camwood's experience working with applications migration data from consulting projects with over 100 large corporations, supporting some 50,000 applications. Automated testing algorithms ensure that an entire organisation's software can be tested in days vs months, and the customer receives a visual display of the compatibility issues they face – a green, amber or red light indicates whether an application will migrate without problems, whether it will have some problems, or whether it will not migrate effectively. A detailed report is then prepared to enable the IT team to address the problem areas, with detailed technical information highlighting the necessary 'fixes' they need to implement to ensure an application installs and runs correctly under Vista. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |