Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile...
by binarycrusader on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:46PM
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Not really. Sun would have survived and thrived if it had thrown its weight behind Solaris x86.
Except they did; anyone working in Solaris engineering at that time or even now could tell you that x86 was just as important as SPARC. From a technological perspective, they are completely equivalent.
For example, the ZFS Storage Appliance is x86-based, not SPARC-based.
Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile...
by justin66 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:34PM
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From the end user point of view, Sun recommitted (and later lessened their commitment) to Solaris x86 support so many times over the years that it's hard to imagine what would convince a user that they were really "throwing their weight behind it." We really mean it this time... wait, where are you going???
Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile...
by Annatar on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:41AM
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But it is true. For a while, AMD based Acer Ferrari laptops were the primary development hardware for Solaris, SPARC or otherwise. It showed up on i86pc first, then it would be built on sparc during the night.
SmartOS for example only supports i86pc; there is no sparc port.
Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile...
by binarycrusader on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:39PM
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The hardest software to change is in people's heads.
I remember when we ripped out our 3 6800s and replaced them with 9 Dells, for way more power at a fraction of the price. Would have loved to recompile on Solaris, but the hardware savings easily covered the cost of a port...