IBM is supporting the open sourceOpenSolaris OSfrom Sun Microsystems
on its mainframes.
IBM has also adopted Sun's xVM virtualisation initiative for its
mainframe platforms. Rich Green, executive vice-president of
Software at Sun Microsystems, said, "Broadening our collaboration
with IBM expands the reach of Solaris and Sun xVM to the mainframe
marketplace, and brings the benefit of open source operating
systems and open source virtualisation to the highest scale
datacentres in the world."
OpenSolaris will now be available for IBM's System z
mainframe.
