Miguel de Icaza wrote: > The above is actually a really good reason why we do not spend more > cycles on Solaris/SPARC. > > The machines are overpriced, and underperforming. It is like buying an > iPhone, just not as useful. > This is the most stupid thing I've seen in a while. Go to a bank and take a look in the datacentre. Hurry, before they go out of business. :-(
Please, try to consider what real users do, and what sort of heterogeneous systems they actually have. I'd wager that there are a lot more SPARC/Solaris systems deployed to live than there are AMD/Solaris, and where new SPARC systems are being deployed they are generally rather important. That'll change, and we'll get to the point where the SPARC systems are database engines rather than application engines first. But the reality is that Solaris shops tend to be conservative. And no, I'm not disagreeing that x86 doesn't give more bang for the buck for CPU grunt. That's not the point at all. SPARC might be slow(ish) but its not broke. This is a question of user need vs developer convenience. I think your attitude is inappropriate if you want to push Mono as a realistic alternative to Java. Which does work rather well on Solaris. James _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
