Perhaps I misunderstood this, but as I read it, it says is that you can still use SPARC if you have a server where you can run the application. I can't find the original posting from Alan Coopersmith, I guess, so maybe I missed the context.
Do you have a suggestion where to discuss future hardware offerings? We've gotten conflicting answers, and it's an issue of concern to us and growing concern to our current customers. Thanks, -- danq >> Even if no SPARC workstation is ever sold again after the end of >> the current UltraSPARC-IIIi line, it's not the end of the SPARC >> desktop, nor of being able to develop and/or run SPARC desktop >> applications. >> >> Other options include: >> - Sun Rays running off a SPARC server >> - Using X11 to remote display 2-D apps from a SPARC server to >> another box >> - Using VirtualGL/Sun Shared Visualization to remote display 3-D >> renderings from a SPARC server to another box >> - Using Transitive software to run SPARC applications on x86 boxes On Aug 11, 2008, at 12:56 PM, John Martin wrote: > Daniel Quinlan wrote: >> >> From my point of view, if there are no future SPARC workstations, >> that's the end of my >> development efforts on SPARC, because our market doesn't include >> sparc servers. >> If the plan is truly to move out of sparc on the low end, I'd like >> to know about it, so we can >> plan our transition to other platforms. >> > While this is the wrong alias to discuss future hardware offerings, > please reread the posting(s) to which you responded. It very clearly > said it is not the end of the SPARC desktop nor the ability to run > SPARC desktop applications. >
