These offerings are geared to those clients considering a change in architectural strategy such as migration to a distributed environment, consolidation to a new platform (i.e. UNIX, OS/390, etc.), or the implementation of a subsystem (i.e. DB2, Oracle, Sybase, etc.).  This service will also assist companies who have already committed to a new strategy and need to size the target platform.  Platform evaluation assists the enterprise in analyzing the feasibility of strategies for both existing and new applications.  A thorough review of the applications, costs, benefits, impacts, skill sets, and ancillary infrastructure requirements is performed. The sizing offering provides clients with the necessary information to configure the hardware and software to support a planned architectural change.