Hi all, But the truth is that Oracle engineers have had a tough time over the past few years. I have no specific info, just unhappy sounds from sales and ex-sales folks. My small collection of Sparc machines will become odder to the new generations of tech folks!
And all power to the remaining Oracle engineers who contribute to sparc linux! Sadly, -- Rick On September 2, 2017 7:03:24 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: >On 09/02/2017 08:55 PM, BERTRAND Joel wrote: >> I suppose sparc is definitively dead... > >No sources, just wild claims, the same wild claims that came up when >Solaris was allegedly killed, yet there has been no statement >whatsoever >from Oracle. > >On the contrary, if you follow the sparclinux Linux kernel mailing >list, >you are seeing lots of patches coming in from Oracle employees every >week currently showing no sign of an end. And Oracle just recently >released Exadata SL6 which is based on Linux SPARC [1]. > >So, as long as I don't see an official statement from Oracle confirming >the demise of Solaris and SPARC, I don't pay much attention to such >news articles and so should you. > >Thanks, >Adrian > >> [1] >https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/exadata-sl6%3a-a-new-era-in-softwarehardware-co-engineering > >-- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >: :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] >`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
