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. Matthew -- Kaiwai's Blog: http://kaiwai.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
