IBM kit moves Solaris software to Linux

IBM plans to announce on Wednesday that it's giving away software to help customers and business partners adapt software written for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to its open-source rival Linux. The Migration Kit helps people assess software written in C or C++ programming languages and move it from Solaris to Linux.

IBM is an aggressive Linux booster, though it competes with its own AIX version of Unix. Sun supports Linux, but prefers customers to buy Solaris support contracts.

[Captain_Spock]

Orion's plans are...

... to develop Migration Kits to help customers move from Microsoft's Windows, Sun Microsystems' Solaris and the IBM backed Linux Operating Systems to IBM's OS/2 Warp Client and OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business to engage the competition for mind and market share in the OpenDocument Format standards arena (such as the Google Desktop and Microsoft's Office) based on OS/2 Warp 4's historical integration of OpenDoc; (see OpenDoc in Warp 4.0: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n13/opendoc.htm ) and for the development and employment of sophisticated web-based spreadsheet (Economic Rate of Return -- ERR) functionalities.

[xtaski]

URL for download

the URL to download:

http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pat_linux_migrate_solaris.html