A number of engineers on the Data Management Group are working on a port of Solaris to the zSeries mainframe servers and we'd like to establish a community supporting and promoting a port. The initial efforts of this port would allow the Solaris operating system to execute as a guest on a zSeries Virtual Machine facility and the Hercules mainframe emulator, http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/. If there was sufficient justification for the effort the port would then address running Solaris in a native partition.
Through this community we'd build a network of developers focused on effecting this port. We see this port as an opportunity to make Solaris the Internet interface to the large stores of mainframe centric data frequently being accessed by Linux today. We feel that Solaris has a number of attributes that will provide significant benefits over the Linux mainframe implementation. >From prior posts on the general discussion list there is an interest within >the community for porting Solaris to the mainframe. It is expected that the >level of participation will be somewhat focused to as limited group of >developers due to lack of publicly available facilities on which to develop >the port. However, the Hercules emulator will allow anyone with an interest >to participate. Thoughts, suggestions, and questions are welcome. Jeff A - jeff dot andre at sun dot com Jeff S - jeff dot shellhamer at sun dot com Pat T - patrick dot tomsula at sun dot com Bob Y - bob dot young at sun dot com This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
