Editing Oracle Solaris (section)

===Other platforms===
Solaris 2.5.1 included support for the [[PowerPC]] platform ([[PowerPC Reference Platform]]), but the port was canceled before the Solaris 2.6 release.<ref name="ppc-kickstart" /> In January 2006, a community of developers at Blastwave began work on a PowerPC port which they named ''Polaris''.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011606-story02.html
 |title       = OpenSolaris Community Creates Kernel for Power Chips
 |publisher   = ITJungle
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120405144010/http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011606-story02.html
 |archive-date = April 5, 2012
}}</ref> In October 2006, an [[OpenSolaris]] community project based on the Blastwave efforts and Sun Labs' ''Project Pulsar'',<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html
 |title       = Embedded Solaris on PowerPC
 |publisher   = Sun Research
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20060627042251/http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html
 |archive-date = June 27, 2006
}}</ref> which re-integrated the relevant parts from Solaris 2.5.1 into OpenSolaris,<ref name="ppc-kickstart">{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/kickstart/
 |title       = Kickstarting OpenSolaris on PowerPC
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120229133259/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ppc-dev/kickstart
 |archive-date = February 29, 2012
}}</ref> announced its first official source code release.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/
 |title       = PowerPC at OpenSolaris
 |access-date  = October 4, 2007
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120229133135/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+power_pc/WebHome
 |archive-date = February 29, 2012
}}</ref>

A port of Solaris to the Intel [[Itanium]] architecture was announced in 1997 but never brought to market.<ref>{{cite press release
  | publisher = Intel Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  | date = December 16, 1997
  | url = http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-12/sunflash.971216.3.xml
  | title = Sun to deliver enterprise-class solaris for intel's merced processor
  | access-date = September 10, 2006
  | archive-date = December 5, 2006
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061205030551/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-12/sunflash.971216.3.xml
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

On November 28, 2007, [[IBM]], Sun, and Sine Nomine Associates demonstrated a preview of [[OpenSolaris for System z]] running on an [[IBM System z]] [[mainframe computer|mainframe]] under [[z/VM]],<ref>{{cite press release
 |url         = https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22718.wss
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080206163737/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22718.wss
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-date = February 6, 2008
 |title       = OpenSolaris Runs on IBM Mainframe
 |publisher   = IBM
 |access-date  = January 21, 2018
 |date        = November 30, 2007
}}</ref> called ''Sirius'' (in analogy to the Polaris project, and also due to the primary developer's Australian nationality: [[HMS Sirius (1786)|HMS ''Sirius'']] of 1786 was a ship of the [[First Fleet]] to [[Australia]]). On October 17, 2008, a prototype release of Sirius was made available<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/
 |title       = OpenSolaris Project: Systemz
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090825162814/http://opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/
 |archive-date = August 25, 2009
}}</ref> and on November 19 the same year, IBM authorized the use of Sirius on System z [[Integrated Facility for Linux]] (IFL) processors.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/ibm_authorizes_mainframe_opensolaris/
 | title = IBM authorizes OpenSolaris on mainframes
 | date = November 24, 2008
 | access-date = November 24, 2008
 | work = [[The Register]]
 | archive-date = December 25, 2008
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081225042159/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/ibm_authorizes_mainframe_opensolaris/
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>

Solaris also supports the [[Linux]] platform [[application binary interface]] (ABI), allowing Solaris to run native Linux [[object file|binaries]] on x86 systems. This feature is called ''Solaris Containers for Linux Applications'' (SCLA), based on the [[branded zones]] functionality introduced in Solaris 10 8/07.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/brandz_lae_faq/
 |title       = BrandZ/SCLA FAQ
 |access-date  = September 10, 2006
 |publisher   = OpenSolaris Project
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20061004053007/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/brandz_lae_faq/
 |archive-date = October 4, 2006
}}</ref>