George and All,
TPI ANNOUNCES SOFTWARE FOR MIGRATION FROM IBM AS/400 TO
MICROSOFT NT
Missassauga - January 23, 1997: Transformation Processing Inc.(NASDAQ
OBB:TPII) has announced a Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft SQL Server
Version of its TRANSFORM/400 AS/400 Migration Tools. Users requiring migration
from the IBM AS/400 platform can now consider an all Microsoft-based solution on
any platform supported by the Windows NT operating system.
A battery of code translators, running on Windows NT, is used to convert the user's
application source code into machine-independent code components. One hundred
percent automatic conversion is achieved except in certain situations. In general terms,
application software functions that were coded for a particular physical implementation
require manual adjustment of programs. For example, bit manipulation of ebcdic codes
requires adjustment after programs are translated into ASCII. Telecommunications,
graphics and office automation functions are some of the other areas that require
attention and may need redesign.
These code components are reassembled into the four modules of the TPI designed
object request broker architecture: a User Interface Client module; an Application
execution module with its dedicated Data Support module; and an Object Manager
supplying OS/400-equivalent functionality. Implementation of this distributed
processing architecture involves compilation of the translated code and linkage with
TPI-supplied networking drivers. Data translators are used to convert the raw binary
data from the AS/400, according to a data dictionary derived during the code
translation phase, and to load it into a SQL Server database.
Transformation Processing Inc. is an information technology company that develops
and markets software that enables companies worldwide to automatically migrate
application programs and data from legacy systems to UNIX,NT and OS/2 open
systems environment and database.
For more information about TPI, please contact:
Philip Beaudoin
Oxford Investor Relation
411 Richmond Street East, Suite 206
Toronto, Ontario
M5A3S5
Phone: (416) 368-6919
Fax: (416) 868-0943
George
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