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. -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
