ORACLE: New Roadmap for SPARC and Solaris

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story imageOracle has published a roadmap [PDF] for its SPARC and Solaris platforms and makes a commitment to SPARC until at least 2019. This was picked up by The Register in a recent article :
Optimists will be pleased that Oracle appears to have three generations of silicon in mind and appears committed to SPARC until 2019 and beyond. Pessimists might wonder if the "core enhancements" due around 2019 represent a worryingly vague statement of direction and/or intent. The planned 2017 and 2018 enhancements to thread strength and throughput also look incremental compared to the heftier enhancements planned for 2015 and 2016, which could be worrying for those who need SPARC to scale.


[Cross-posted at SoylentNews.org]

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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