On Nov 11, 2007 4:52 PM, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2007 4:30 PM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 11, 2007 2:07 PM, UNIX admin > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is anyone other than myself interested in seeing > > > an > > > > > IA64/Itanium port > > > > > of OpenSolaris? > > > > > > > > Would that be cool? Why, yes it would! > > > > > > > > Would it be a justifiable return on investment? No. > > > > > > > > Here's the deal: > > > > > > > > who's running IA64? Only two firms, sgi and hp. > > > > > > Actually, believe it or not, IA64 seems to have found > > > a niche with > > > worldwide Mainframe builders. (excluding IBM). > > > http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/37050 > > > 16 > > > > 200,000 pieces? That's miserable. > > > > Love this quote: > > "Despite its low profile, RISC-based processing continues to hold between > > 45 and 50 percent of the market and the revenues are still substantial" > > > > Yeah, no kidding, the IA64 based hardware is way, waaay overopriced! When > > will companies, Sun INCLUDED, finally get it into their head that the days > > of fat profit margins are GONE. > > > > Expensive SILICON DOESN'T SELL. > > > > It has to be CHEAP and MASS PRODUCED, or else forget it!!! > > While I would agree that the growth is in the commodity spaces, IBM > has proven time and time again, that mainframes aren't going anywhere. > Do you think Sun, IBM, and HP would still be making this hardware if > customers weren't still buying it? > > I would guess the majority of Fortune 500 corporations still have > Mainframes in the basement running some hypercritical processes. > > Also another interesting trend in Enterprise IT is that most of the > innovation going is basically reinvention of 30 year old mainframe > technologies on commodity hardware. ;) (Virtual Machines, > fiberchannel/isci, JCL, thin-client computing, utility computing, high > availability, throughput computing, etc.)
That all said there are far most interesting, (IMHO) targets for porting. Like MIPS and ARM. (I suggest these if we wish to compete with Linux in the high volume embedded space. e.g. Linksys routers, smartphones, toasters...) ;) If anyone is interested, in pursuing alternate hardware platform ports, you would probably be well educated, by having a talk with Tom Riddle, who's team did the PPC port, which to date is the only cross-compiled build of OpenSolaris. (It is built exclusively with GCC on x86). Cheers, Brian > > Cheers, > Brian > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > - Brian Gupta > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
