As David pointed out, Sun doesn't provide binaries for anything to run
on IBM's mainframe architecture. In the general case, though, the
question of "why" boils down to what ever the ISV decides is in their
best interests as a business, since it takes quite a bit of time and
money to certify and s
> Slightly off-topic, but I wonder how long until someone
> decides to port OpenSolaris to s390? I read that the port to
> PPC reached an operational state in the last week.
Watch this space. 8-)
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hat the port to PPC reached an operational
state in the last week.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Boyes
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:23 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SUN JDK on zseries
We have one custom
, January 12, 2006 9:23 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SUN JDK on zseries
> We have one customer area that is pretty insistent on trying
> to run a Weblogic application with a SUN JDK. They are
> runnning on a 64-bit SLES9 server. We have told them that it
> would not
Because no one has ported the HotSpot/JIT code (which is architecture
dependent) to s390. Sun uses their "Hotspot" compiler to take the Java byte
codes and create native s390 instruction sequences. I ported the 1.2 and 1.3
JDKs when they still used a Just In Time compiler (JIT) but hesitated whe
> We have one customer area that is pretty insistent on trying
> to run a Weblogic application with a SUN JDK. They are
> runnning on a 64-bit SLES9 server. We have told them that it
> would not be a vendor certified configuration (BEA says to
> use IBM 1.4.2 s1ra). We also stated our IBM sup
