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The Mainframe Migration Alliance

1 March 2006

The Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) is a group of almost 50 companies that are working together to help customers migrate workloads off of the mainframe and onto the Microsoft platform. The alliance represents a group of companies that have their interests aligned in making mainframe migrations easier and more efficient for customers. Members include Microsoft, Micro Focus, Satyam, Asysco, Getronics, EDS and Accenture.

The MMA offers customers the information they need to achieve the same scalability, reliability and security using Windows Server 2003 and the .NET Framework that they had achieved on the mainframe, while delivering much greater organisational agility and significantly lowering overall IT costs.

MMA members seek to disseminate information about alternative solutions, and facilitate an orderly migration of mainframe workloads to the Windows platform.

The MMA Web site also offers case studies, discussion boards and a directory of members, so organizations can choose which of the partners is best suited to carrying out their particular migration project, whether to go all the way or a lift and shift of code.