Are your applications running on Linux today? If not, this paper is intended to give you hints and tips and describes a roadmap on how you can port applications to Linux. It is based on the experiences of software engineers from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and from the worldwide IBM labs, who have been involved in many projects porting applications to Linux.

First we describe the characteristics of Linux and its specific value for developing and hosting applications. Next we review key questions and provide a porting roadmap that explains the major steps of a port. Finally we show how easy it can be to port from one Linux platform to another, using IBM's eServer zSeries as an example.

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