Skyguide of Switzerland selects Transoft to migrate mission critical air traffic control applications

June 25, 2003 – Transoft, a leader in enabling companies to evolve new IT solutions from their existing applications, today announced it has won a major migration project with Skyguide which is responsible for ensuring the safety of air traffic in Switzerland's airspace. Transoft will migrate Skyguide's core business applications - written in a complex mix of ADA, Fortran 77, C and Assembler - from a Data General (DG) MV to a modern Windows NT environment.

Joël Jordan, Head of Data Processing Division at Skyguide comments: "The reliability and sustained accessibility of our system is obviously vital for what we do. This migration project with Transoft will remove any future risk associated with the hardware, and maintain the high level of safety our industry demands."

Transoft's migration will enable Skyguide to transfer its applications to the Windows NT platform. This will save huge redevelopment costs, preserve the knowledge and skills of current IT staff, and guarantee the essential high availability and security of the system.

It is expected that, despite the high level of testing required for this type of application, the migration work will only take a little over one year, with implementation in 2004.

Skyguide has been tuning its software, running on DG MV machines in Geneva and Zurich, over a period of many years to meet its demanding requirements. Data General (now part of EMC2) ceased selling MVs several years ago, and Skyguide's migration anticipates that it will be increasingly difficult to source spares and expertise for this legacy platform.

About Skyguide
Skyguide is responsible for ensuring the safety of air traffic in Switzerland's airspace, on behalf of the Swiss Confederation. Safety is the overriding principle in all air traffic control operations, plus providing quality air traffic services for all its customers.

The company's 1,400 personnel work day in, day out to provide safe, efficient and customer-friendly air traffic services. It's a demanding task, and one that requires extensive expertise, pronounced flexibility and a strong commitment to the task. Skyguide manages and monitors the civil and military air traffic in Swiss airspace at Zurich, Geneva, Berne and Lugano and military airports and in the sectors of adjoining non-Swiss airspace it has been assigned. It is currently extending these managing and monitoring duties to the country's military airfields, too.

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