FreeSoft successfully completes a tool based application migration from Ingres/4GL to Oracle / Forms

Corning is one of the world's leading producers of fiber-optic cable. It also produces fiber optic components, liquid crystal display glass, projection video lenses, laboratory equipment, substrates for emissions control and specialty glass such as high purity fused silica - a glass used in space shuttle windows and telescope mirror blanks, used in observatories around the world.

The Project

Corning GmbH decided in 1998 to migrate their 13 Ingres ABF applications to Oracle Developer 2000, including the database schema, 4GL procedures, rules, events and the data. The original application contained Total number of converted objects:

455,000	Lines of code
1,196	Screens
151	Reports
1,537	OSQ-files
215	Database tables
52	emb.SQL sources

Solution

The operating system for the database was OPEN/VMS running on an COMPAQ-ALPHA and that was not changed. The Ingres 6.4 database was converted to Oracle 7 database and is now on version 8. The Ingres ABF clients were converted to Developer2000 clients running on MS-Windows-NT (now on MS-Windows-2000)

Advantages for the customer

Continued assurance of the investment in the application after the strategic change to Oracle
Automated conversion of source code through the usage of the FreeSoft converter.
Major step towards a modern, flexible architecture.

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