> I noticed today that Sun has stopped selling Sparc > based desktop machines. I was sort of shocked by this > to say the least. I have to support applications that > have endian issues, and this could be painful. > > Does anyone know if Fujitsu or another vendor will > pick up the slack?
Who can say for sure? I would speculate that noone will step up to the plate. With SPARC systems being rediculously expensive and with little to offer in comparison to a modern CPU multicore-NVidia monster-accelerator-with audiophile-8+1-high-def-sound PC-bucket, SPARC on the desktop has been scheduled to get the ax for a while now; it's was really only a question of "when", not "if". I mean, how can an expensive SPARC system compare to a modern PC-bucket-monster in price and performance (try getting a comparable SPARC system for about $2,000 USD!)? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
