On Wednesday, May 27, Red Hat and its partners Xebia, Ciber, Profict and Sogeti had organized the seminar "Business-critical processes with JBoss'. They have shared what solutions they have developed for customers like the Nationale Postcodeloterij, NXP and NS-HiSpeed and what their benefits are. This seminar was organized in Utrecht. Xebia had covered the topic: "Migration to JBoss, Made Cost Effective and Easy"

1. Migration to JBoss
Made Cost Effective and Easy
Presented by
Anurag Shrivastava
Xebia IT Architects India Pvt. Ltd.

2. About Xebia Group
Strengths
Lean and Collaborative Approach to
150+ Employees Offshore
16 m Eur Revenue Experts in Enterprise Java and Flex
Proven Track Record Agile Software Development using
Scrum & XP
Locations
Hilversum (Netherlands)
Paris (France)
New Delhi (India)
USP
Thought Leadership
Lean Thinking
Collaborative Approach
Expertise
Software Projects
Consulting and Audits
Agile Coaching

3. JBoss Middleware Stack
Lower TCO. Higher value.
Great flexibility.
Red Hat has already proven
open source software for
mission critical enterprise
use.
Success with operating
systems and infrastructure
now extended to
Middleware.

4. Migration
Better or
Cheaper or
Faster

5. Java Middleware Migration
• Better performance
• More features
• Better service and support
• Lower annual support and licensing fee
Lower TCO
“JBoss the best quality Application Server on the
market” -Forrester Research, 2008

6. JBoss Middleware
• Top quality with very high customer satisfaction
• Community driven innovation, tested and certified
by Redhat
• Easy availability of tested patches
• 24x7 Enterprise class SLAs are available up to 1 hour
response time
• Fallback to community support JBoss.org if needed
• References: Swedish Railways, AVIS, NH
Hoteles, French Tax Declaration

7. Your Current Situation
• Situation A:
– Worried about vendor lock-in with a proprietary
closed source software
– Growing per CPU license costs
– Less budget for new projects
• Situation B:
– You are happy and satisfied with your present (non
JBoss) middleware
• Situation C:
– You are already running JBoss middleware

8. Vendor Lock-in
An Extract from Oracle Official Price List (2 Days Back)
quot;People are not happy about [the price hikes],
but they've accepted them as inevitable. We Weblogic Server Enterprise
told customers: 'When is the last time Oracle = EUR 17840
bought a company and didn't raise prices?' It 1xCPU License
actually helped us sell a lot of upgrades going
into the acquisition,quot; this reseller executive
said.
Source Techtarget: http://bit.ly/bBtKI

9. Lowering the TCO
– Lower licensing costs
• Lower per CPU
subscription cost
– Lower migration cost
• Effective use of lower
offshore rates
From 1/3 to 1/5 of local
rates

10. Key Considerations before Migration
1. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
2. Project Planning and Tracking
3. Performance and quality of the migrated system
4. Hidden Surprises
5. Skills Migration
6. Transition Strategies
7. Migration or Rewrite

11. TCO
• TCO
– Migration Project Costs
– Subscription Costs
– Cost of Transition
• Time of your people
• Planned downtime
– Skills Migration
• Training people
• Hiring new people
– Cost of Maintenance
• Average time to solve an
incident

12. Project Planning and Tracking
Iterate
1. Initial 2. Migration PoC 3. Mainstream 4. Go live
Assessment Migration
• Scope definition • Definition of •Manage migration •Support during go-
• Application DONE backlog live
Inventory • Migrate selected •Work in sprints of 2-3 •Hand holding for
application weeks few weeks until the
• OS application is
•Daily stand-up
• Clustering • Test the selected stabilized
application •Retrospectives
• JVM/JRE •Sprint planning
• Application Sever • Demo
•Performance testing,
and Versions • Migration report acceptance testing
• 3rd Party • Retrospective and unit testing is
Components • Go/No Go integrated in the
• Deployment sprint
• Identify PoC
Application planning
• Integrations • Go live
• Products like
ESB/Portals
Xebia - Agile Migration Method

13. Performance and Quality
• Quality - Must be the same or better after migration
– Longer testing cycle and higher risk if there are no
automated tests for an application
– One can write automated test cases but then it is not a
core migration activity anymore
• Performance - Must be the same or better after migration
– Performance testing should be automated and integrated
in the sprint to ensure same or better performance

14. Hidden Surprises
• Each application migration project is unique
• You need good knowledge of both source and
target environments
• Applications vary in their complexity
• Some technical challenges examples:
– The application programming interfaces (APIs) used across the applications are not
usually uniform since they may have been developed at different times.
– Some applications may entail integration with a single sign-on, existing security
framework, while others may involve integration with third-party packaged products.

15. Skills Migration
• Train Administrators
– JBoss standard training programs
– Hire specialists from the market
– Have onsite support from the service provider until the
application is stable
• Train Developers
– High chances that they know JBoss already
– Training strategy can vary between formal training and self
study depending upon the level of your developers
– Training might be useful if you use JBoss products like
JBPM, JBoss Rules and JBoss Portal

16. Transition Strategies
• Big Bang Migration
– Migrate everything
– Go live with everything at once
• Incremental Migration
– Start from less critical applications and gradually move to more critical
applications
– Migrate, test and make applications live one at a time
– Think of environmental factors like peak and dull season

17. Migration or Rewrite
• Migration to JBoss could be a great opportunity
– To throw away some old code
– To improve test coverage
– To reduce amount of code by taking the benefit of new
features of Java
• Would you migrate EJB1.0 or EJB1.1 to the newest
JBoss middleware?
• Initial assessment can help you decide between pure
migration or some rewrite

18. Sample Calculation
License/Subscription Costs Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Total
Bea Weblogic Server Enterprise Edition for 4 x
CPUs Server € 71,452 € 12,366 € 12,366 € 12,366 € 12,366 € 1,20,916
Jboss Subscription for 4 x CPUs Server € 5,300 € 3,975 € 3,975 € 3,975 € 3,975 € 21,200
License Cost Savings in First Year € 66,152 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 99,716
Migration Cost in First Year € 36,850 €0 €0 €0 €0
Net Savings € 29,302 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 8,391 € 62,866
Migration Costs for 1 Application JBoss Cost of Ownership Calculator
Initial Assessment € 5,600
http://bit.ly/15WISB
Offshore Migration Effort € 11,250
Training for your Administrators € 6,000
JBoss Specialist Help € 6,000
Onsite support € 8,000 This calculation is based upon indicative data
available in the public domain. Please get in touch
with us for detailed information.
Total One Time Costs € 36,850

19. Xebia – Migration Partner
Xebia Capabilities Your Benefits
• Expertise in several Java application • Risk Mitigation with Agile Approach
servers • Deep technical expertise mitigates
• Have been looking “under the hood” technical risks
for several years • Proven Agile Offshore track record
• Successful Agile Offshore model with • Fixed price migration projects are
Dutch customers like ProRail, UWV, possible
KLM
• Engaged in migration projects for the
customers like Achmea, KvK and KLM
• In-house JBoss expertise in NL, FR and
India
• Knowledge of products such as jBPM,
Rules Engine, ESB and Jboss Portal

20. Conclusion
• Time is just right for high quality enterprise
class open source
• Consider the total cost of ownership when
planning a JBoss migration project
• Use Incremental and Agile approach
• Do not underestimate the technical risks
• Take expert help
• Consult success stories/references

21. Xebia: At Your Service
Website Sales Offices
www.xebiaindia.com
www.xebia.com
INDIA
Anurag Shrivastava
Xebia India
612, BPTP Park Centra
Thought Leadership Sector 30
http://blog.xebia.com Gurgaon 122001 India
http://podcast.xebia.com E-mail: sales@xebia.com
Phone: +91 9910 174582
EUROPE
Edward van de Pas
Xebia Global Services
Utrechtseweg 49
1213 TL Hilversum The Netherlands
E-mail: sales@xebia.com
Phone: +31 651 274875
www.xebia.com

22. References
JBoss Middleware Migration customers – some examples
Swedish Railways
● electronic ticket sales / auctions / SMS through ESB
● 700% performance gain over WebSphere
DGI – French tax declaration
● Online system for French citizen income tax declaration (replaced
WebLogic based
system)
● over 13M EUR savings in project costs
AVIS Car Rental
● Migration from WebLogic - Revenue and Fleet Applications
● over 50% savings in TCO
Swedish National Police Board
● replace Oracle and WebLogic by MySQL and JBoss
● saving 20M EUR over 5 years
Much more references can be found here:
http://customers.press.redhat.com/category/solutions/jboss/

23. Jboss Enterprise Middleware