thus Martin Bochnig spake:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Timo Schoeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
(fork of) OpenSolaris could take this place
and more. There were OpenSolaris, now it`s FreeSolaris :)
But let`s hope this will not happen.
Everything IBM touches is turned to gold, but loosing it`s
inspiration and, well, unix-way :)
Don't think so. Power is overwhelming :)
Do you think IBM would not immediately discontinue SPARC and so many
other then-redundant things (such as Netbeand, MySQL etc etc) in case
of a takeover?
There's OpenSPARC; there's Fujitsu; I don't see a problem here.
Furthermore, imagine what could be there -- something like a Power/SPARC
hybrid, which uses *both* ISAs? That would be a nice thing. Just as an
option.
Is OpenSPARC.net not an "overwhelming" offering?
Yupp. I just wanted to say that IBM is not the 'uncool' way of doing
Unix. Power hardware rocks, as does AIX (after a certain time you need
to get used to it); it's way better than 'not-proprietary' x86/Linux
stuff (isn't x86 as much as proprietary as
Power/SPARC/PA-RISC/MIPS/ARM/etc is? ;)...
Do you believe IBM would invest the resources necessary to port
OpenSolaris to power (in a proper manner, with usable results)?
I don't know. Why not? Furthermore, there's already the Polaris project...
Unlikely. Instead the would cut the pearls out of OpenSolaris and for
better or worse put them into AIX and LinUX.
I don't see how; it starts with licensing issues... and that's not the
end, I could imagine a gazillion reasons why this won't happen. :)
From the way in which you argue you could also state "LinUX is
overwhelming".
I surely don't and wouldn't do so, I'm a BSD addict; however, during the
last years I became much less political in this regard, so... use the
perfect fitting tool. Sometimes this even may be GNU/Linux.
> It sure is and many think so.
Maybe, maybe not.
But we are on a
Sun-OpenSolaris list here.
Sure; but discussion on this Sun/IBM thing wouldn't work without
external influences and ingredients like this. It raises many many
topics like 'continuing this or that CPU arch' or licensing issues etc...
Best,
Timo
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