Publishing giant Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 and its operations have evolved over the decades. The publisher decided to port its mainframe applications to Windows Server® and the Microsoft .NET Framework®. Saying Dave Schaeffer has a challenging job is an understatement. Simon & Schuster’s Vice President of Distribution and Fulfillment oversees the publisher’s distribution of 262 million books annually —amounting to 1.9 million orders and 5,000 tractor- trailer truckloads of books each year. If these trucks were parked end to end, it would cover the length of highway from the business’s Philadelphia-based location to New York City. CLIENT Simon & Schuster INDUSTRY Publishing CHALLENGE Migrate off the mainframe while preserving existing applications SOLUTION GT Software

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