Jon Power Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Area

Created the original application migration tools. Open up offices in the USA. Eventually moved Sector7's HQ to Austin, Texas. Became IBM's migration factory, eventually sold the large scale server consolidation practice to IBM. Awarded two patents for Migration process.. Enjoying OpenVMS migrations, actually LOVING OpenVMS Migration,. After 30 years, we get to migrate some of the most complex systems on the planet (not just the application code but also the VMS middleware) and we know… Show more Created the original application migration tools. Open up offices in the USA. Eventually moved Sector7's HQ to Austin, Texas. Became IBM's migration factory, eventually sold the large scale server consolidation practice to IBM. Awarded two patents for Migration process.. Enjoying OpenVMS migrations, actually LOVING OpenVMS Migration,. After 30 years, we get to migrate some of the most complex systems on the planet (not just the application code but also the VMS middleware) and we know exactly what to do and exactly how to do it.We always hope for a little 'spice' in our projects, we are people constrained, so we choose our projects very carefully.A migraton will succeed if companies follow 5 very simple rules, the really interesting point is that technology is way down that list.I suppose that technology is way down the list because we 'have' the technology all packaged up. I think that in 1987 doing our first VMS migration - (quoting 5 months to turn PDP-11 BASIC+2 into VMS BASIC, and also having these other things "DCL, SMG, SYSTEM SERVICES, BATCH AND QUEUE MANAGER" that 'technology' ) that technology was at the end of the list.I remember during that project saying to James "Wouldn't it be great if a wormhole opened up and our future selves form 30 years threw a copy of the software through it". Well, here we are ... 30 years later .. who woud have guessed that (a) we dont have any access to any media that our past selves could restore the tar set on (b) our 1,000,000 lines of VMS for LINUX is written in a dialect of C which wouldn't compile (OK, so the ANSI C could be easily migrated to K&R C,and I'm sure we could have figured out C++ (c) Oddly the UNIX/LINUX/AIX/SIENIX/XENIX/DGUX rules that we put in place (ony use lowest common denominator unix calls) mean that most of of the VMS RT would run on computers of that era.The IBM RT 6150 had just been released .. HP didnt have a UNIX offering, SUN/APPOLO work stations were just making appearances, Show less

Austin, Texas Area

So, everyone at Sector7 'programs'. CEO/SALES LEADS/PROJECT LEADS, we all get our hands dirty. I would like to say that the reason for this is that its MUCH easier to sell something if you dont have to rely on getting a techno geek up to explain the tools. That same techno geek, will have no interest in describing the 'process' (which is actually more important (since the tools are 'there').The real reason, is that we all love programming, and after 35 years of Unix/Linux programming ..… Show more So, everyone at Sector7 'programs'. CEO/SALES LEADS/PROJECT LEADS, we all get our hands dirty. I would like to say that the reason for this is that its MUCH easier to sell something if you dont have to rely on getting a techno geek up to explain the tools. That same techno geek, will have no interest in describing the 'process' (which is actually more important (since the tools are 'there').The real reason, is that we all love programming, and after 35 years of Unix/Linux programming .. we're pretty damn good at it. We love programming way more than doing the books, cold calling, sales presentations. All of us would rather debug 10M lines of a cliets code than, lets say, update the web site (I bought an iMAC about 7 yeas ago to use to update the web site, it just got done, about 3 months ago).Interestingly, the reason that I didn't update the web site was that I found that xcode was fantastic at general (non mac'ish) development and debugging. The reasons are simple, MAC OS is BSD4.3 under the covers. So, all the Unix/Linux stuff is available from Apple or Macport (www.macports.com) LOVE THOSE GUYS . Every GNU licensed package is available for the MAC.Now, you may say "but BSD4.3 isnt Linux" and if you said that, you dont know much about Unix/Linux/BSD programming.I can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of real differences (mosty names of non stadard header files). So, you have the best code development system (C/C++, instant compiling, in line error correction, AND with xcode 8, the ability to have the terminal I/O do into a seperate terminal window).There is a reason so many apps are out there for the iPhone .. you just cant find a bteter faster development system.I did it again, was writung the profile and got sidetracked with the development environment) Show less