Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. A customer case study was developed for the migration of SAP running in 4 virtual partitions from Sun Solaris to a comparable HP or Sun solution. The analysis used competitive platforms, databases, services, available features, and practices to perform as close to a like-to-like comparison as possible. The analysis was complete in its accounting of costs and benefits, considering all direct costs of migrating from the legacy Sun Solaris platform to the proposed HP or Sun solution. Because the solutions are business mission critical, the analysis also considered the indirect ownership costs and business advantages of each solution, comparing downtime costs, security risks, time to market, and agility.

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