Linux program targets Solaris

IBM has expanded a program to lure customers using Sun Microsystems servers and software to Big Blue products running Red Hat's Linux, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The company will offer qualified customers a free service to assess the best way to migrate from Sun's Solaris operating system to Linux.

The company will try to convince those customers they should then purchase IBM's Migration Factory services, in which a team of IBM specialists works with the client to make the transition. Since IBM began its Linux program several years ago, about 3,000 of its 12,000 Linux customer engagements have been with customers moving from Solaris to Linux, IBM said.

IBM migrates Solaris customers to Linux? Wheres AIX?

Why would a customer migrate from Solaris with over 12,000
applications migrate to Linux on Power where theres very few
applications? Is AIX dead? This doesn't make anysense unless
you'd like to pay IBM for droves of consultants.

[sidboyce]

IBM targets Solaris Customers

I remember "Destination Solaris" of a few years back, I worked for a company that shared the goal of migrating customers from z/OS mainframes to Solaris on SPARC. At the time a colleague said he didn't know what funny stuff they were smoking and said they were crazy if they thought they could migrate a CICS database as an example, no matter what smart conversion tools they thought they had. Needless to say, it never got anywhere as no one took it seriously, not even the sales consultants touting it. Looks like "Destination Linux" is more of a proposition.