Solaris Coming to IBM's Power Architecture?

johnm writes "Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's pony-tailed number two, dropped this little snippit in his blog where he talks extensively about what he thinks 'open' means: 'For example, as we continue porting Solaris onto IBM's Power architecture (demo coming soon!)...' Does this mean you'll soon be able to ditch OS X and stick on Solaris 10 onto Macs?" While coming off as an ad for Java, Schwartz also raises some valid points about Unix and migration.

Comments

Mono Project

[ddkilzer]

Apparently, Jonathon doesn't know about the Mono Project, since moving a .NET application to another platform wouldn't require a rewrite.

Re:Ditch OS X For Solaris?

[bhima]

Really, I find the ppc 970fx cpu very interesting, perhaps more interesting than most (we use a derivative at work) but still Solaris who gives a fuck? (I could be speaking for my company a large pharma sort of place) when I say "piss off" *BSD suits my needs and NetBSD is orgasmically groovy!

Oh and I use OS X

why would I even need SCO^H^HOLARIS?

Re:Can we say behind the times???

[confused one]

Actually, it's you who may not get it...

Sure, Linux and BSD run on PPC, Sparc, x86 & AMD64 hardware. Some companies don't want to run Linux; they'd rather run a fully supported & certified, scaleable Unix. If Sun can get Solaris to run on all of these platforms (including Power4 & Power5), then they'll be the only Unix vendor in this position.