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At the [[Gartner]] Data Center Conference in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] in late 2007, Sine Nomine demonstrated OpenSolaris running on IBM System z under [[z/VM]]. It was there that David Boyes of Sine Nomine stated that OpenSolaris for System z would be available "soon."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0XPN2z6Qc Open Solaris on System Z demo part III], YouTube Video</ref>

At the [[SHARE (computing)|SHARE]] conference on 13 August 2008, Neale Ferguson of Sine Nomine Associates presented an update on the progress of OpenSolaris for System z. This presentation included a working demonstration of OpenSolaris for System z. During this presentation he stated that while OpenSolaris is "not ready for prime-time" they hoped to have a version available to the public for testing "in a matter of weeks rather than months."<ref name="Share2008">{{Cite journal |first = Neale |last = Ferguson |title = OpenSolaris on System z |year = 2008 |place___location = SHARE Summer 2008, San Jose, CA }}</ref>

In October, 2008, Sine Nomine Associates released the first "prototype" (it lacks a number of features such as [[DTrace]], [[Solaris Containers]] and the ability to act as an [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] server) of OpenSolaris for System z to the public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2008/10/opensolaris-for.html |first=Timothy |last=Sipples |title=OpenSolaris for System z Now Available |date=2008-10-16 |access-date=2008-10-16}}</ref> OpenSolaris for System z has a project page at OpenSolaris.org.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/ |title=OpenSolaris Project: Systemz |access-date=2008-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/66lMdWVOn?url=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+systemz/WebHome |archive-date=8 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> OpenSolaris for System z is available for download at no charge, and is governed by the same [[open source license]] terms as OpenSolaris for other platforms. All source code is available; there are no OCO (object code only) modules.