Bill Essig wrote:
I looking for any old Sun Microsystems hardware anyone would care to
donate (or money is good too).
Reason is, I want to diversify and learn Solaris. You know the old
saying about keeping your friends close and enemies closer. Anything
is good, from the old 133 ultrasparcs to the brand new x86/64 blades ;-)
Also, on the off chance that you all have some SGI/IRIX stuff, that
would be cool too.
Bill,
I might be able to come up with a SGI/IRIX Octane box, but I'll have
to check into what I've got in the back room.
Also, just so you know, most of the Big Iron Unix stuff is dying.
SGI/IRIX is dead at the end of the year, at least officially.
Practically it's already is dead [1]. SGI is trying to survive on the
Altix/Linux stuff, but I don't think they have much hope. Too much debt,
to many bad decisions.
HP has done the same thing with the PA-RISC processors [2]. They
are dead. You can still get them, but they are getting rare. Everything
they are shipping now is Itanium based, but that's got a short life as
well. I'm fairly certain I heard from our internal development folks
that they are also planning on killing HP-UX, but they haven't publicly
announced it yet. Last I looked they were selling less than 30k HP-UX
licenses a year [3].
Sun is killing the SPARC processor on everything but high end
servers (think clusters). All of their low/mid range servers and desktop
workstations are moving to Opteron. If you want to play with Solaris, do
it on a x86 based system and download OpenSolaris.
The only 'Big-Iron' Unix server that is still being actively
developed is IBM's AIX/PowerPC systems, but again, they aren't selling
many licenses [3].
HTH,
Garl
[1] http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
[2]
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164302278
[3] http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug012606-story05.html
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