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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: 2, Interesting)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2014-04-08 16:50 (#10N)

Back in the first internet bubble, Sun gear was mandatory for every startup. Then startups migrated to x86 for the next wave, and now they're almost all on AWS. With Sun/sparc not being purchased in such quantity anymore, they are ever more reliant on existing companies replacing older systems and.or adding capacity. I'd love to see Sparc and Power survive and thrive, but it doesn't look likely.

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

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-08 17:09 (#10Q)

Oracle customers are not startups, not by a long shot. While I agree with you that Power is the new Itanic and basically dead (several indications; no roadmap, latest chips were late, they created something called 'openpower', ...), for Sparc it might not be true. Fujitsu is also investing and Japans supercomputers use those Sparcs and they probably want to export these as well. Oracle has a huge customer base and as soon as their database will run much faster on the Sparc gear, those customers won't care what ISA they're running anymore.

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