[SAGE] Solaris/x86 versus Solaris/SPARC (was: Re: actualtechnical questions (was Re: [SAGE] Did everyone Migrate to LOPSA?))

[Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>]

At 3:00 PM +0000 2005-11-25, Adrian Rixon wrote:

>  As a matter of interest, does migration to an Intel/AMD platform always go
>  hand-in-hand with a move to Linux or BSD? Why not stay with Solaris/x86?

	In my experience, Sun is still not committed to x86.  They 
support it to a degree, but the drivers typically aren't there, and 
Sun doesn't tend to issue patches and updates for x86 -- at least, 
not anything like they do for SPARC.

	I still believe that Solaris/x86 is primarily intended to give 
people a low-cost entry to Solaris, and once they get bitten then 
they can be upgraded to "real" Solaris on SPARC.


	But that's just a personal opinion.

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