>The project will not have a chance. The Solaris/IA64 project was >canceled by the board after Intel announced that IA64 will replace >SPARC and NOTHING will reverse that decision, not even the new >Intel-Sun alliance. Even without the history I'd be a tough job to get >the old Solaris/IA64 sources - we tried to convince the high-end >platform group to release their sources for the 64k kernel project and >invited them to join a research project lead by TU Vienna and >sponsored with EU money. Sun rejected this high profile offer, even >after offering free licenses for any patents created during this >project. I doubt you'd have more luck with IA64.
What I heard was quite a bit different (and since I heard it from Glenn W directly, I think my version may be closer to the truth). Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
