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Does the death of Solaris have any implications for the future of SPARC? Seemed like most of the SPARC hardware that Oracle sells/sold exclusively ran Solaris.
by spilk 9y ago
Does the death of Solaris have any implications for the future of SPARC? Seemed like most of the SPARC hardware that Oracle sells/sold exclusively ran Solaris. I could be wrong about that, though.
- tankenmate 9y agoFujitsu as been the largest manufacturer of SPARC chips for a number of years now. They make super computers (and mainframes) with SPARC chips although for how much longer... Their latest major announcement along side Oracle was in May this year.
- jabl 9y agoAt least on the supercomputing side, they're switching to ARM: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/post-k-supercomputer-overview.pdf http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/post-k-supercomputer-ov... (no idea about whether mainframes will continue using SPARC)
- jsiepkes 9y agoFrom what I understand most of the SPARC people got laid of too. So unless Fujitsu really ups it's SPARC game I doubt there is much future for SPARC.
- noselasd 9y agoSPARC was released under the GPL license. It might be living on through the LEON processor, at least for a while. It's the processor of choice at the European Space Agency, used for most of their recent satellites and spacecrafts. LEON pretty neat, you can run it on an FPGA and boot linux on it if you're brave enough.