> What would be the effort to convert applications from Solaris 10 to > OpenSolaris? > I take it this is the same as any other Solaris to Linux conversion > which can be trivial until you hit the OS specific calls.
Recompile. The APIs are identical, so you're just dealing with the processor architecture difference. The major reasons that this is interesting is the availability of some of the latest Solaris goodies like zfs and dtrace, which work the same way they do on other architectures, but are dealing with 390 code instead of Sparc/x86-64 code. It's leveraging the operations and management skills -- baby steps -- to a non-Sun platform. > Would Solaris run without having to switch over to OpenSolaris to run > under zVM? Well, that's a little harder. Clearly SPARC and x86 binaries won't run w/o some complex majick -- could be done, but not in our free time, and not w/o some dedicated resources. Most of the work being done to get the OpenSolaris code onto 390 would also apply to the Sun-distributed Solaris code as well, but Sun controls that. Sun would need to step up actively to working with us. They've been friendly, but if you want this, tell your Sun rep. And your IBM rep. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
