Well, for one thing people still sell sparc machines. But beyond that, they care to catch bugs that an architecture monoculture misses/ignores. For example, t

Well, for one thing people still sell sparc machines. But beyond that, they care to catch bugs that an architecture monoculture misses/ignores. For example, the OpenBSD folks have said a number of times SPARC64 is a good way to catch memory alignment problems. Diversity in testing is a good thing.