Star Oracle Promises to Commit to SPARC, Solaris
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 19:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
SUN Microsystems There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.
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RE[2]: Good all around
by vermaden on Fri 11th Sep 2009 09:29 UTC in reply to "RE: Good all around"
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While the networking part is also getting some serious love, I'm not sure that it's ever going to be competitive with Cisco or Juniper. Linux or the BSDs still aren't at that level.


Juniper (and many other vendors) use FreeBSD as a base for their systems and are contributing a lot of code back, check this for example:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3835746

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