Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available

BBCWatcher writes "When Sun released Solaris to the open source community in the form of OpenSolaris, would anyone have guessed that it would soon wind up running on IBM System z mainframes? Amazingly, that milestone has now been achieved. Sine Nomine Associates is making its first release of OpenSolaris for System z available for free and public download. Source code is also available. OpenSolaris for System z requires a System z9 or z10 mainframe and z/VM, the hypervisor that's nearly universal to mainframe Linux installations. (The free, limited term z/VM Evaluation Edition is available for z10 machines.) Like Linux, OpenSolaris will run on reduced price IFL processors."

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Not surprised at all

[TheLink]

The way I see it, IBM is in the business of providing so much choice to customers that they need expensive IBM consultants to help them decide.

Microsoft will sell you the Microsoft Way of doing things.

Whereas IBM will say "You want a Active Directory server, a Z mainframe with RedHat, OpenSolaris and Oracle, Cisco switches, and there must be full J2EE buzzword compliance? No problem, just sign here".

Careful to make sure they will actually do the job though, and not outsource it to a bunch of fresh PHP coders in India ;).

Re:This is EPIC because:

[Amarok.Org]

How so? If customers have a need for Solaris, would IBM rather see them go buy some Sparc gear from Sun, or a few extra processors for their System z complex?