This is GREAT news. Many thanks! -Virgilio On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 3:06 AM Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main > > At the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project meeting this week, it > was announced that beginning in 2023, the OMP will have a z15 available > for any Open Source project that wants to make use of it. According to > the announcement at > > https://www.openmainframeproject.org/press/2022/09/21/open-mainframe-announces-new-mainframe > "...this mainframe infrastructure will be available for broad open > source projects as a development, test, and continuous delivery > environment, enabling developers within these communities to be able to > support both z/OS and Linux on s390x." > > The z15 will be hosted at Marist College, adding to their already > good-sized menagerie of IBM Z hardware. The hardware is being donated by > Broadcom Mainframe Software Division. > > While we've had similar resources available for Linux-based OSS projects > for some time, this is the first that I'm aware of the availability of > no-cost access to IBM Z hardware for z/OS-based Open Source developers. > It will be interesting to see if any more z/OS-based OSS projects come > along to make use of this. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
