RE: Oracle to acquire Sun
- From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ssibert@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:55:38 -0400
Don't forget that Sun ships a lot of x86-64 boxes - I wouldn't be surprised if
SPARC gets sold off to Fujitsu, who already does the manufacturing and a lot of
the chip development. Then Oracle/Sun can just OEM fujitsu boxes for legacy
customers, while migrating them over time to Solaris or Linux on x86.
I feel very confident this will result in solaris x86 becoming a tier 1
platform for Oracle, though.
Thanks,
Matt
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Scott Sibert
Sent: Tue 4/21/2009 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Oracle to acquire Sun
Aurora Linux: old site: http://auroralinux.org/ and newer site:
http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/
Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC
The hardware seemed to be the hard part -- booting, video, network, IDE -- it
all seemed unnecessarily difficult on Sparc hardware. I had a couple of Suns
(a 100 and a U420R) but they were such a pain that I gave up on it.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
2009/4/21 Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Yes, and maybe we will see Linux on Sun.
>
There did used to be a version of Linux for Sun, Mandrake IIRC. I did
run it for a while on an old Sparc20 box but it didn't really have any
apps available so I trashed the box and installed Solaris 9.
I got the impression that it was more for someone who's primary aim
was to run Linux on Sparc, rather than wanting to do anything useful
with it.
That said, I did setup and attend a presentation by someone from SuSE
(got him to address a local LUG) who said that because of the way they
develop their code it's very easy for them to recompile for non-Intel
platforms. If there is sufficient demand they will produce the
product. One of the possibilities he cited was Sparc (Power (i.e.
IBM) was another one). To mis-quote Jim Morrison (in "Wayne's World
2"): "If you come, they will build it!"
Stephen
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