On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:40 -0400, Brandorr wrote: > On 8/17/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:21 -0400, Brandorr wrote: > > > On 8/16/07, Giles Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed. > > > > > > > > Now it looks like we will have IBM servers preloading Solaris. > > > > > > > > http://www.physorg.com/news106499717.html > > > > > > > > Is Sun planning to leave the hardware market? > > > > > > Jonathon Swartz said: > > > > > > "Despite having what's arguably the single biggest competitive > > > advantage our systems business has ever had, we've separated out > our > > > microelectronics business - and told them to win on the open > market, > > > as well. We signed our first OEM agreement with Marvell, through > which > > > we'll be collaborating to take our networking advancements to the > > > marketplace. More broadly, our microelectronics team is free to > sell > > > to our competition. For the record, we'd be thrilled to supply, > for > > > example, a Niagara blade to HP or IBM for their blade servers - as > > > well as to the larger market of networking, storage, automotive > and > > > industrial applications. It's a commodity market, after all - > vast, > > > growing, and in search of differentiation." > > > > > > In a word, "No". > > > > Hmm, so SPARC will have to actually compete rather than hiding under > the > > shadows of other divisions; maybe someone will take responsibility > for > > the abysmal SPARC performance which leaves it at the bottom of the > TPC > > benchmarks. > > T2 is pretty darn good especially considering it has on-die > 10GigEthernet, and Rock should be phenomenal. Sparc has plenty of life > in it beyond lecacy support. If Sun continues to push the multicore > CMT trajectory, I could see some very interesting chips come out over > the next 1-5 years.
But the problem is the lack of accountability; remember the delays with UltraSPARC III? the person in charge, his head should have rolled along with those under and around him. Who's to say that because of the lack of accountability within Suns processor division, that the same debacle isn't going to repeat itself? Maybe the computer assembly side will start demand SPARC to pull finger or finger that the sole supplier of processors in future will be Fujitsu. Like I said, decisions are made at Sun, and no one is willing to dive on the sword when they make a mistake - that is what keeps causing problems at Sun, the lack of accountability. Matthew -- Kaiwai's Blog: http://kaiwai.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
