All SPARC64 servers are made by Fujitsu, they also manufacture some parts for the UltraSPARC systems. Fujitsu can continue the business without asking Sun/Oracle for any permission.
The UltraSPARC T1/T2 are open sourced (GPL) as OpenSPARC, also Fujitsu and Sun have been jointly working on the new UltraSPARC systems, therefore if they want, they can carry on and with small modifications get the new systems out. As SPARC systems are suitable particularly for Oracle DB, I think Oracle would want to work with Fujitsu on new boxes. --- On Tue, 21/4/09, Blaster <blas...@556nato.com> wrote: > From: Blaster <blas...@556nato.com> > Subject: Re: [SGD-Users] FYI: Oracle to buy Sun > To: "'Sun Secure Global Desktop Users mailing list'" <sgd-users@filibeto.org> > Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 8:51 AM > OOo and XVM are OpenSource as well, why would you think of > them any > different? > > IMHO, the only question mark is Sparc. Will Sparc live on? > Or will Solaris > become an X86 only OS? > > -----Original Message----- > From: sgd-users-boun...@filibeto.org > [mailto:sgd-users-boun...@filibeto.org] > On Behalf Of Paul Walsh > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:04 AM > To: sgd-users@filibeto.org > Subject: Re: [SGD-Users] FYI: Oracle to buy Sun > > Jeremy Stagg wrote: > > > > I'm more interested in Microsoft and Novell's > reaction. > > > > I'm not - not really interested in *anything* MS have > to say! ;) > > IMHO selling to IBM would've been disastrous for Sun. > It'll be interesting > to see what happens to MySQL, Star Office > (OOo) and xVM. I doubt MySQL will die as it's open > source. > > What the deal does mean is that customers can get hardware, > O/S and DBMS all > from the same company and expect it all to > work seamlessly. It avoids the situation where, when > something goes wrong, > individual suppliers point the finger at > everyone else. > > I think Sun has a fantastic product line and would hope > that would continue. > I once described ZFS as "the best thing > since sliced bread" to our account manager....I > hadn't seen Sun Ray at that > point! :) > > -- > Paul Walsh > > _______________________________________________ > SGD-Users mailing list > SGD-Users@filibeto.org > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sgd-users > > > _______________________________________________ > SGD-Users mailing list > SGD-Users@filibeto.org > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sgd-users _______________________________________________ SGD-Users mailing list SGD-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sgd-users
