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12 June 2008

Compatibility issues could affect majority of enterprise applications


Almost 90 per cent of typical applications could potentially have problems deploying in a Virtualised environment.

That is according to a new survey carried out by Changebase AOK, one of the world's largest automated application compatibility tools.

The research was carried out in a bid to help improve organisations' understanding of the "issues that they might face when moving to a Virtualised platform and to define what is required to enhance their use virtualisation technology".

A sample of 100 popular enterprise applications were put through Changebase AOK's Virtualise-IT testing suite.

The results indicated that 49 of the applications were incompatible, but could be virtualised with some remedial work, while 38 had compatibility issues that would completely stop them from being virtualised.

Just 13 of the tested applications had no issues at all.

Commenting on the findings, Grant Ford of Changebase AOK said: "131 informational messages were raised across 16 of the applications that could be virtualised showing that they had a dependency on office components being available to them which proved interesting, as the biggest concern that clients had voiced was the ability to be able to identify dependant middleware or missing dependencies."<br/>

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