Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
...I read again the WayIn post, don't know if you can read it without being registered: http://www.wayin.com/#!/games/727ef756-1a8a-48f5-82c9-0e3c10b077d6 well, these are few words by Scott McNealy: Solaris is not on Intel, so if Sparc goes, Solaris suffers too What do you read??

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Volker A. Brandt
http://www.wayin.com/#!/games/727ef756-1a8a-48f5-82c9-0e3c10b077d6 well, these are few words by Scott McNealy: Solaris is not on Intel, so if Sparc goes, Solaris suffers too What do you read?? Sorry Gabriele, please do not be angry at me, but this is just confused gibberish to me. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Open Indiana
So many pure SUN/Solaris/OpeninIndiana professionals and one rumour puts us back to The Sun gossip. ;-) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 01/ 7/12 10:46 AM, Open Indiana wrote: So many pure SUN/Solaris/OpeninIndiana professionals and one rumour puts us back to The Sun gossip. ;-) Its not rumor actually. It does not mean what it is said (x86 kill) but it is close enough, regarding Openindiana. I don't care if our commodity

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 7, 2012, Nikola M. wrote: It means Oracle not willing to make x86 hardware to run non-Oracle software on it. Then why did they send me a Windows driver disc with the X4170 M2 we bought last year? Maybe it's explained somewhere in their Windows 2008 Server install guide for the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 01/ 7/12 12:22 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Jan 7, 2012, Nikola M. wrote: It means Oracle not willing to make x86 hardware to run non-Oracle software on it. Then why did they send me a Windows driver disc with the X4170 M2 we bought last year? Maybe it's explained somewhere in their Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Jan 7, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Andrew McRae wrote: If you read the whole statement, and its context, rather than just pulling out a few words like this, then it's clear that what he means is if SPARC was cancelled, then Oracle would not control the CPU that their OS (Solaris) runs on, and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! Inviato da iPad ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread James C. McPherson
On 6/01/12 10:22 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! 2003 called, they want their conspiracy theory back. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread LinuxBSDos.com
I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! What's the source of this rumor? -- Finid ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/06/2012 01:22 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! Sources please, because from where I'm standing, it looks like you're just making this stuff up. Cheers, -- Saso

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Magnus
On Jan 6, 2012, at 9:59 AM, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! What's the source of this rumor? And moreover, how would anyone here know if such a rumor were true? This is not an Oracle-sponsored project. Also,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/06/12 04:22, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! No. Oracle makes lots of money selling Exadata storage appliance systems running Solaris on x64 hardware. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Linda Kateley
This has been a rumor since acquisition of sun... i wouldn't worry about it. i would guess that in the highest rooms of the oracle building all ideas have gone across the table. lk On 1/6/12 6:22 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Bernd Helber
Sorry mate, but i think this is pure nonsense and fud too. Who told you this? Would be quit interesting to know about the source. Why should Oracle do this? To sell more Sparc Systems? Nobody of the Customer Base will buy more Sparc Systems in case of EOL'd x86 Solaris Cheers Bernd On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
Please note that although we all thought it was FUD; Alan Coopersmith (notice his email address) who works for Oracle (but still thankfully watches these forums) has already responded to this in the negative, and hasn't included any of the usual caveats about it being a different department. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/06/12 09:23, Jonathan Adams wrote: Please note that although we all thought it was FUD; Alan Coopersmith (notice his email address) who works for Oracle But as I note here every few months, please remember I am not an authorized Oracle spokesman, and what I say is not an ironclad

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread cpforum
From Solaris 11 releases notes : Solaris 11 no longer support x86 (32 bit) but support x64 (64 bit Intel). Message du 06/01/12 18:31 De : Alan Coopersmith A : Discussion list for OpenIndiana Copie à : Objet : Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed? On 01

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/06/2012 07:22 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! They did say they'd get rid of the 32-bit versions of Solaris, so that's probably what you're referring to, as well as remove support for older SPARCs, which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/06/12 04:22, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! Inviato da iPad ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Linda Kateley
On 1/6/12 4:30 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/06/12 04:22, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris... Is this true?! Inviato da iPad ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in bittorrent, we could make S11 upgreadable to OI, so no one would loose any server if Orcale goes nuts and kills architectures... That would be a very important task. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Shain Singh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Rennie Allen
Goes nuts? That would imply that the starting point wasn't currently nuts wouldn't it? ;-) On 1/6/12 4:37 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz gabriel.delac...@gmail.com wrote: Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in bittorrent, we could make S11 upgreadable to OI, so no one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 01/ 7/12 01:37 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in bittorrent, we could make S11 upgreadable to OI, so no one would loose any server if Orcale goes nuts and kills architectures... That would be a very important task.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Ok, the sources were voices from some Oracle Italy guy who told a friend of mine that the higher plans of Oracle were to kill Oracle Intel in a couple of years and stick to just sparc... I didn't believe that, but was still guessing if there may be any hidden truth leading somwhere. I also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 6, 2012, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in BitTorrent 1. It's not a legit release and therefore a legal grey area 2. We don't know who released it but either way see #1 3. It's most likely that Solaris 11 changes are spread