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

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>]

On Nov 25, 2005, at 1:35 , Brad Knowles wrote:

> 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?
>
> 	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.

I think it's simpler than that:  Sun is, fundamentally, a hardware  
company, and the ultimate goal is to get you onto Sun hardware ---  
which until recently meant SPARC.  (The 386i was related to their  
SPARC line about the same way Solaris/x86 related to Solaris/SPARC:   
a stepping stone to the real thing.)

Given Sun's recent hardware moves, it's quite possible that things  
will be changing in the Solaris/x86 world; but I'd want to wait and  
see how the new hardwqre goes before committing to Solaris/x86.

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