Timo Schoeler <[email protected]> wrote: > thus Alan Coopersmith spake: > > Octave Orgeron wrote: > >> Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. > > > > Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - > > there's no more pushing to that point to do. > > IBM sells POWER-based workstations. I like workstations, I like *real* > workstations even more. Sun should not rely on x86/x64-only machines, IMHO.
If the CPUs that are used in the new 9000 series are available for an affordable price, Sun could make Spars workstations. The old Sun sparc CPUs are just not in the right class for a today's workstation. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
