Naturally, every port is different, but it has been our experience that simple applications port to the proof-of-concept stage in hours, fairly complex applications port in days, and extremely complex applications port within weeks. Customers are often amazed how quickly applications port using the PTC MKS Toolkit developer products.
For example, Computervision tried to rewrite a seven million-line application before coming to PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. Their rewrite took 12 of their engineers more than 13 months to produce a port with less than 60% of the function of the UNIX product, and its performance was lacking and the result felt like a kludge to their end users. When they abandoned the rewrite effort and came to PTC, the initial port took two days, followed by integration and testing, and both the performance and look-and-feel were acceptable to their end users. The QA'd Windows application was deployed in under three months.
Our Case Studies section details many similar success stories from our customers. |
