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From the University of San Diego
"Thanks for asking it's going great - no complaints, however, the operators
are stunned at the processing speed. Our developers and analysts are
thrilled - we're seeing improvements in throughput of anywhere from 2 to 10
times the previous system. We have not heard a peep from our users, which
says a lot about how smoothly the upgrade went. Thanks for your superb
support and for working with us on this important upgrade. Thanks to all of
you and especially Greg for his help in getting the new system up and
running. It appears that you folks at Salem have this down to a science
because this is exact experience we had four years ago (on the initial
CHARON installation). Thanks again."
A few comments from the users at The Bell Group in Albuquerque, NM about Salem Automation and CHARON VAX:
"It is very refreshing to find a solution provider that can deliver what is offered and do it right the first time. The user base at The Bell Group still has no idea that they are working off an emulator. They still think they are connected to the VAX. Right after we cut over to the CHARON VAX system I had two developers working on the system and even they thought they were working on the old VAX!"
Comment from Yale Lock Division Corbin Russwin system manager Neil Hartfield:
"We initially eyed the CHARON-VAX Emulators as a too-good-to-be-true solution. However, with the combination of SRI's solidly coded software and Salem Automation's expertise and commitment to the project, we were able to prove that it was all true!"
Lockheed Martin Cape Canaveral, FL Defense related Space Program, one site software engineer stated:
"The new system is at least 14 times faster than the old system and produces the same results. This has been a very successful migration for us."
Comments from a manufacturer and supplier of communications and test equipment in the northeast:
"The speed of the system is phenomenal.
I would estimate it is close to 25 times the speed of the old VAX.
Your staff was very knowledgeable and made the whole process go very smoothly...
Other than it being faster, most of our users cannot tell that it is a new system."
A major aircraft electronics equipment supplier had the following to say:
"I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and all the people involved in this conversion.
All of the Test Scripts were completed without any errors or issues. The new CHARON VAX is truly excellent.
I spent a very productive day today on my new system and just love it - it lacks for nothing."
A major midwest food distribution center talks about CHARON VAX:
"It's going GREAT! Period end was taking us several days, and it was done on Friday afternoon
this time around. We're seeing batch throughput that's at least 400% greater, and response time is
pretty nearly instantaneous most of the time. Thanks for your professionalism and hard work on site
with us - I don't see how things could have gone any better, especially considering the magnitude/risk
of an undertaking of this kind. If we can help you guys out by being a reference, or in any other way,
please let me know!"
An OEM supplier of metal working equipment talks about CHARON VAX:
"I wanted to thank you both for the help and support we received during the CHARON VAX migration
project. The migration process we performed last weekend went so seamless that our users haven't noticed
that a change (a significant one) has been made. I think that is rare thing. But it speak very well of the
quality of service we received and that the CHARON VAX product was the right choice to make."
An existing CHARON VAX educational institution customer of 2 years:
"Overall the project was a huge success, we have been live almost 2 years and would gladly work
with Salem Automation again. The big improvement is on back-end jobs. The master scheduler program ran
5 hours on 'real' Vax, runs 15 minutes on CHARON VAX. Similar improvements in reboot time."
A supplier of media consulting services had this to say about a recent CHARON VAX install:
"Gentlemen, I thought you might like to know how I solved my old VAX problem. I decided to use
CHARON VAX, which emulates various VAX chips on (alas) a Windoze server. The software was written by
a bunch of old DEC coders at Software Resources International. The whole thing cost $28K, $10K of which
was for a spiffy dual processor HP server running Windows Server 2003. Since it emulates a VAX chip
and not VMS on a new chip, the software doesn't know that it isn't running on a VAX. In fact, I made
no changes to the software and it ran out of the box (YMMF). My version emulates a 3100-96 and is very
speedy, mostly because of the improvement in modern CPUs and disks. I am very happy. This will tide me
over until I can rewrite the system in some modern language and get rid of my software supplier's yearly
costs."
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