[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <XaeL$bbfbmGG at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

>   Hard to justify Sun hardware or Solaris when PC hardware running
>    Linux meets the "UNIX is good enough" criteria.

OpenSolaris?  From

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/emerging_platforms/

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Current Projects

   o - ppc-dev
   o - The ppc-dev project encompasses a port of OpenSolaris to the
       PowerPC architecture and/or POWER architectures. Releases under
       this project have sometimes gone under the name of "Polaris."

   o - System z
   o - The System z project encompasses a port of OpenSolaris to the IBM
       System z mainframe as a guest OS. This project has also gone by
       the name of "Sirius" in the past.
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I am also curious at to what interest Oracle have in the ZFS file system.

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Paul Sture