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ORACLE: New Roadmap for SPARC and Solaris

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They should worry (Score: 2, Interesting)

by fishybell@pipedot.org on 2014-04-07 17:49 (#10E)

If you're truly invested in SPARC, and you haven't already considered jumping ship to x86, I'd recommend reconsidering. Yes, it will continue to bump along, but since Oracle's main focus is their database, which runs fine on x86/Linux, that is where the future is for them. I am not aware of anyone using Solaris for anything other than Oracle and SPARC for anything other than Solaris.

Re: They should worry (Score: 2, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-07 18:15 (#10F)

SPARC and their entire stack from ILOM to Solaris is orders of magnitude more robust than anything else out there. They also proved that they can deliver reliably in contrast to IBM where any Power7+ and Power8 are all delayed lately. I think we can expect stories again from people migrating /to/ the Oracle platform in the very near future.

Re: They should worry (Score: 1)

by dnied@pipedot.org on 2014-04-08 07:08 (#10J)

I hope you're right, in the interest of platform diversity.

Re: They should worry (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-09 14:48 (#116)

x86 is not so bad and personally I don't appreciate platform diversity with ARM. I would prefer however Power or SPARC (sparc even as an completely open platform). Just compare the source trees in the Linux kernel of sparc and ARM, the latter is a total mess.

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