Transitive announced that prominent UK-based internet grocer Ocado has deployed Transitive's QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution to move its application development and testing infrastructure to a new hardware platform. Built from the ground up, Ocado made its first grocery delivery in 2002 and now handles tens of thousands of orders each week, providing high-quality groceries delivered into the kitchen at prices comparable to those charged by larger brick-and-mortar grocery stores.

"We are very pleased to have Ocado as a successful QuickTransit customer," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Transitive. "Ocado's business model demands a highly efficient computing infrastructure, and the ability to transition quickly and easily to new hardware platforms will allow Ocado to maintain its competitive edge, without the expense or distraction of porting projects."

"Our operational infrastructure was originally based on equipment that we acquired quickly when the company first started," said Tim Horne, head of operations and infrastructure at Ocado. "Our in-house datacenter growth was straining our rack-space capacity and we had to move quickly to replace our aging servers with newer, more efficient equipment. With the help of QuickTransit and other virtualization software, we have now reduced our test and development physical environment to one-quarter of its original size, with tremendous savings of space, cooling and electricity. QuickTransit allowed us the breathing room to initiate porting projects based on business need rather than undertaking an emergency project. We also welcome the resulting energy savings, which underscore the benefits of our inherently green business model."

To address the most typical customer deployments, Transitive offers three configurations of its QuickTransit product line: QuickTransit Workstation is intended for use on desktop and laptop PCs; QuickTransit Server is used for large-scale datacenter consolidation projects; and QuickTransit Legacy is a specialized version for application re-hosting from very old legacy hardware running operating system versions that are no longer supported.