holy "christ",

could there be anything less consequential in the enterprise IT marketplace than an irrelevant OS on top of a dying hardware system?...

i barely read this article, because i could honestly care less about any openSolaris efforts, so i think i gathered that a company actually was put together to do the above trick - - is that right?...

someone has so much time on their hands, enough money, and that little of imagination, that their project is Solaris on Mainframes?...

i really don't what to say, other than:

planet earth to Sun management,

no one frickin cares about your dead OS, move on, so your customers can begin the relatively painless migration to Linux, seriously, grow up, and admit defeat, it isn't that bad...

Why wont you tell us their name? Isn't this taking confidentiality too far?

Perhaps I shouldn't credit you with a response - that's what you're after, after all, or so I gather - but I've had enough whisky not to care less.

I've been trying to suss out your marketing angle as a sales droid. Perhaps you would explain it to us - are you just trying to stir up those who will take you at face value? What's the scoop?

@douglas dooley - How much do you care about openSolaris?

I say this because if you *could* care less then you *do* care, especially when you're being so honest about it.

Please don't do it again.

"Why wont you tell us their name? Isn't this taking confidentiality too far?"

What do you mean, they don't tell you their name?

http://www.sinenomine.net/

what more do you need?

That explains everything, and a lot more besides. Thank you :)

This is just another example of Project Copy Linux. IBM has had a measuer of success getting Linux on support on older mainframes, it has let their customers re-use old mainframes with a new range of apps, protecting IBM's mainframe revenues and gaining some support revs. So Sun, with their usual lack of invention, have simply tried to copy it. I betcha soon the Sun logo will change to a penguin-like cartoon bird!

IBMs current mainframe offering is probably the best hardware you can buy!

Its significantly better the the top end IBM unix boxes which are definately the best unix hardware you can buy.

It runs Linux images just as well as any other hardware, and the native z/OS does a pretty good job of impersonating unix in its spare time. (The Unix System Services are more POSIX complient than Solaris!).

Presumably you would need a re-compile to get your solaris programs to run on z/OS hardware, whereas a simple purge of Solarisisms and a recompile could get your C or C++ programs running natively -- so whats the point?