TFiR interviews John Mertic, director of program management at the Linux Foundation and the Open Mainframe Project, about a new infrastructure program that gives qualifying open source projects access to real IBM Z, z/OS and cloud-native mainframe environments for development, testing and education. The program addresses a long-standing gap in which mainframe hardware was too expensive and often air-gapped for most contributors to reach, leaving only a handful of specialist companies able to do porting and testing work; Mertic says the project has fielded questions about hardware access since its founding event at LinuxCon Toronto in 2015.
Open Mainframe Project opens IBM Z and z/OS access to qualifying open source projects
TFiR interviews John Mertic, director of program management at the Linux Foundation and the Open Mainframe Project, about a new infrastructure program that gives qualifying open source projects access to real IBM Z, z/OS and cloud-native mainframe environments for development, testing and education. The program addresses a long-standing gap in which mainframe hardware was too expensive and often air-gapped for most contributors to reach, leaving only a handful of specialist companies able to do porting and testing work; Mertic says the project has fielded questions about hardware access since its founding event at LinuxCon Toronto in 2015.
Source: Tfir