>>> On 5/13/2009 at 5:39 PM, Matthew Donald <matthew.b.don...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: -snip- > Didn't Evolution used to be open source? Did Novell make it closed source > when they took over Ximian? If it's open source, then it should be possible > to get someone to port Mono (which is open source) and Evolution (which is > written in Mono) to S390x. That's the advantage of open source.
Evolution and Mono are both open source. Mono has already been ported to the mainframe, thanks to the efforts of Neale Ferguson, and was shipped with SLES10, and now SLES11. The issue, for most people on this list, isn't the availability of the software for the platform, it's whether they can get commercial support for it, from a company that management will say "OK" to let do it. Mark Post
