Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC
Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. 
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> I would imagine that both Oracle and SAP both will want to port to the Niagara chip
Actually no porting will be required whatsoever, Niagara appears just like a bunch of UltraSparc cores to any application software. The only thing that would be beneficial to have before migrating to Niagara is the software should be optimized well enough to take full advantage of a large number of threads.