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

["Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org>]

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Didn't Mcnealy state that Sun was a software company... And then  
later that it was a hardware company.. And then later that it had no  
worries about Linux.. And later that it had always been devoted to  
Linux.. And later that it would never open source Solaris?


On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]       
> allbery@kf8nh.com
> system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]   
> allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon  
> university      KF8NH
>
>
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