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Weyerhaeuser Rehosts Natural Adabas Application on HP Integrity Servers

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Overview One of the world's largest forest products companies, Weyerhaeuser Company operates in 10 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people, primarily in the United States and Canada. It needed to rapidly transition application to a scalable, distributed platform without excessive cost, risk, or retraining. It deployed to rehost 475 MIPS Natural Adabas workload on IBM 2064-1C2 mainframe running z/OS 1.7 to HP Integrity rx7640 Servers running HP-UX 11i.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard (HP)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, HP-UX

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