OpenSolaris to ARM

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We have opened a bounty for Port OpenSolaris to ARM and made a $5000 donation toward the port. Various distributions of GNU/Linux are already running on the ARM-based Efika MX Developer Edition. It is time to open up the ecosystem a bit further. The Efika MX Open Client will be the next target.

The OpenSolaris Project needs to be fully defined before it is assigned (and will be before it appears on the power2people Home page). This will be done before the Efika MX Open Client ships to the developers that have subscribed to the Project. You will be able to track the effort through the corresponding PowerDeveloper Project page: i.MX515 Project #772 (Port OpenSolaris). Of course, we hope to be featured as an official target soon. We will be as supportive of this effort as we were for the Solaris PowerPC Port. The Pegasos/ODW and the EFIKA were the primary OpenSolaris PowerPC targets. We had a very positive experience with the OpenSolaris Community and we are quite excited about this new effort.

On a grander scale, we believe the business of 'computing" is undergoing a fundamental transformation aimed at driving massive increases in scalability and efficiency. After roughly 20 years, the client-server model has reached its economic/functional obsolescence and we see a new generation of systems that can deliver quantum leaps in utilization improvements. Our Cloud City offering is not only running on Sun servers, but also leverages the Premier Google Apps offering and an ARM Citrix client. It could be quite interesting to see how this might all fit into a more tightly integrated Oracle-Sun environment as the future unfolds. In the meanwhile, we will be plugging away so we can offer the user as many potential options as possible.

The Community is the Computer - Go Zig!

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