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zyztem | 5 years ago

Years later there was another port of OpenSolaris to IBM Power computers called "Polaris": https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/solaris_on_power/

And even port to IBM z/VM ("Sirius"): https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/solaris_on_mainfram...

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skissane|5 years ago

> And even port to IBM z/VM ("Sirius"):

Unfortunately that died, because Oracle stopped being willing to cooperate with the port [1]. Of course, I understand why they might not see it as being in their commercial interests to support porting their OS to a competitor's hardware; but, I think their turn away from openness with Solaris accelerated its decline rather than delaying it.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/29/oracle_solaris_z_ib...

(Disclaimer: ex-Oracle employee, but I was never working on Solaris directly, just on higher-level middleware stuff which sometimes ran on Solaris, and I really don't know anything about this topic beyond what has been reported in the media.)