Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by mghackerlady on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:22PM
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Java was exploding and sun machines were the server platform at the time. Yes, the dot com bubble burst and their stock was in freefall but all the things deployed to sun that survived the bubble didn't just disappear or move to X86 overnight
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Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by greedo on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:00PM
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Well you can say the same about COBOL...
Just because things hung around didn't mean that Sun/Solaris/Java were long for this world. Linux/x86 was just too cheap compared to SPARC gear. Even if it wasn't as robust as the Sun gear, it just made too much sense especially if you didn't have any legacy baggage.
Re:IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
by mghackerlady on Monday April 06, 2026 @05:55PM
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I never said that was the future, the writing was on the wall to anyone paying attention. All I was saying is that x86 servers weren't nearly as ubiquitos as today