Linux to Solaris development?

[Alan Dayley]

A very real need has popped up at my employer to develop a special 
application to on Solaris, x86 and Sparc too.  The need is not imediate but 
will pop up very soon.

My question is very simple:  Given that Solaris is one of the *nix family, 
can a program be developed and run on Linux and resonably easily ported to 
Solaris?

OK, so the question really is not that simple.  The application must be able 
to write SCSI protocol commands, both standard and vendor specific, directly 
to a SCSI storage device.  GUI not required, console is fine.

So, is it worth it to get going on a Linux development path or should we just 
wait for the Solaris equipment to get going?

Alan

PS  Beyond attempting an x86 install, I have no experience with Solaris.