We have developed with the Centura language for over 7 years. During this time, it became clear to us, that the Centura technology had its advantages, but also many limitations:

• low speed;
• large executables;
• can only run on Windows platform;
• not well suited for Web applications development;
• incomplete implementation of Object Oriented features;
• there are no Collections supported;
• no support for multi-threading;
• poor IDE with no alternative;
• incomplete documentation on many features;
• bugs, bugs and bugs again (many of them migrate from version to version);
• low number of third party libraries;
• relatively low number of experienced developers.

Most of these limitations were overcome in Java platform and therefore we decided to create an automated conversion tool that could migrate, as much as possible, a Centura Team Developer application to a 2-Tier Java application. We called this conversion tool SibAnts Java Convertor.

SibAnts Software also recognised a requirement for a .NET conversion tool was imminent and in February 2003 we released our SibAnts .Net Convertor conversion tool, that supports C#, J# and VB.NET at this moment. It is based on the same parsing engine as SibAnts Java Convertor and it saves us a lot of efforts.

With Java and C# our productivity has increased significantly (about 40% in development and more than 100% in testing/fixing). We are able to use advanced tools for application design, code production and testing. We are now able to incorporate the number of great third party libraries, which are often free or even open-source.

For us to provide you with a free, no obligation, estimate please download and run the SibAnts Statistics Generator executable according to the readme.txt file contained in the installation package. A Consultant will call you within 24 hours to discuss your migration efforts.

If you have any further questions or you are interested in becoming a partner, please Contact us immediately and if you leave your phone number, a member of our staff will contact you in 24 hours.

Note: 95-98% (real projects statistics) of the original Centura source code is automatically translated. Our team of Centura, Java and. NET experts will convert the remaining 2-5%. They will also optimize and test your application. It is our commitment to provide you with a complete service.

Guarantee: We can convert any Centura application to Java or. NET. We provide a fixed quote in terms of price and time. If however, the time is exceeded your price is still fixed. You do not pay in full for the conversion until your success criteria (which you define) are fully met.

Insurance: We are insured for Workers Compensation (Employers Liability) of £10 Million and Commercial General Liability insurance (Public Liability) of £2 Million and we are covered worldwide including USA and Canada for your peace of mind.