>> Sun Ultra[tm] 27 Workstation:
>>     * Intel Xeon 3500 series Quad-Core Processors
>>     * NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 graphics accelerator (quantity one)
>>     * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
>>     * NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
>>     * NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 graphics accelerator (quantity two)

> I've never seen a SPARC based workstation with an Intel Xeon processor.
> Don't let the Ultra name fool you, there's nothing SPARC about an Ultra 27.

No, not at all. I saw that too and just felt like listing it there as the
only current workstation. 

> Sun hasn't sold a SPARC workstation since 2008.

Has it been that long? I think TadPole are still making some very nice units 
and I wonder what the market demand is. It may be small but certainly non-zero.

>> Perhaps the real issue us that Oracle/Sun forgot what the community
>> was all about and are now simply in product mode thinking and
>> supported product talk.

> Sun laid off the engineers and cut the support for those 
> workstations well before Oracle made it's offer to buy the company.

Oh hell.  :-(

Thank you for the quick reply, sad though it may be.

Dennis 

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