"Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> > Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2223709,00.asp
> >>
> >> 18-month long project to get OpenSolaris running on IBM z-series
> >> mainframes close to completion.
> >>
> >>
> > I haven't a clue. I wonder if it is true.
>
> Of course it is true. In fact, there are witnesses that saw the demo.
> However I can tell you that I had a pretty funny phone call with a
> rep from IBM Canada who swore up and down that the z Series will only
> run Linux. Pretty funny really.
Given the fact that you would need to change the underlying vitualization
OS to allow it to boot a new OS different from Linux they are right.
Also it seems strange as IBM is going to replace the C-MOS z series with
recent PPC hardware in the near future, a port to z series looks like a
starter only.
J?rg
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