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About Jon Walker
Jon Walker serves as CTO of Versora, an ISV providing Microsoft to Linux migration software. Mr. Walker has co-authored desktop migration whitepapers with Novell, Red Hat, and Linspire. Prior to Versora, Mr. Walker was CTO/VP of Engineering for Miramar Systems. Software developed under his direction at Miramar has been deployed to over 20 million computers worldwide. Mr. Walker has also served as senior technologist for Nortel and Xing Technology (now Real Networks). Mr. Walker has a blog (jon.linuxworld.com) that focuses on migration, systems management, and mixed IT environments.
jwalker@versora.com

About Versora
A manual desktop migration can be a laborious and tedious task, prone to error. There are a myriad of technical considerations associated with the migration of data, application, and system settings. As a manual migration, it can take many hours of technician time per desktop and requires a proficiency on both the Windows and Linux platforms regarding the differences in file structures, applications, application settings, and system settings. To make the process more manageable, Versora's Progression Desktop automates the migration via an intuitive interface.

Progression Desktop provides predictable results that can be repeated simultaneously on desktops throughout the organization and does not require the level of technical expertise required for a manual migration.

Versora provides Windows-to-Linux automated software migration tools. Their solutions include Windows-to-Linux desktop migration, Linux database migration from Microsoft SQL servers, and Apache Web server migration from Microsoft IIS Web servers. Versora's Progression Desktop is a systems management tool that automates the migration from a Windows desktop to a Linux desktop as well as from a Windows desktop to a Windows desktop. Progression Desktop can move data, application, and system settings via an intuitive click-through process. Migrations can also be fully automated from a command line to allow integration with third-party system management applications such as Novell ZENworks, CA Unicenter, and Red Hat Network. Progression Desktop supports the following operating systems: Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Fedora Core, Linspire, Novell Linux Desktop, Red Hat Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, SimplyMEPIS, Turbolinux, SUSE Professional as well as many other standard Linux distributions.

Progression Desktop can facilitate the migration from Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express to Novell Evolution, KMail, Mozilla, or Thunderbird. On Windows platforms you can migrate Microsoft Outlook 2000 to Outlook XP Migrate any or all files or folders mapped to any location. Migrate Microsoft Internet Explorer to Mozilla, Firefox or Konqueror Migrate Microsoft Internet Explorer 5x to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Migrate Wallpaper, Screen Saver, Keyboard settings, Mouse settings and Sound settings Migrate AOL Instant Messenger to AIM, GAIM or Kopete Migrate Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office XP Migrate Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.