Sun Microsystems plans to release the first update to Solaris 10 by the end of the year, adding an overhauled start-up process, software update feature and performance improvements.
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Member since:2005-07-07
The problem for Sun is that they know they need to do something with x86 but that isn't where most of their income comes from. It's like Novell with Netware, Groupwise etc. on the one hand and Linux and open source software on the other.
Too soon to jump to conclusions on Sun's x86 future. Sun's x86 products are a only a couple of years old. The galaxy machines were announced very very recently to even matter to the bottom line.
Member since:Too soon to jump to conclusions on Sun's x86 future. Sun's x86 products are a only a couple of years old.
Does this mean that the 80's were just a "couple" of years ago, that 386s don't count as x86 machines or that you aren't thinking about when Sun sold Intel processor based workstations 20-some odd years ago?
When should we jump to conclusions on this? Or on Motorola processor based workstations? Maybe they'll start buying Power chips from IBM, eh?
Member since:2005-07-08
We have the big stuff here as well (SunFire V480, V880, 3800, 4800) and a collection of various Sun SPARC workstations and servers. The 10 V20z's we have are used for a specific project and the glitches we are seeing are software related.
I think a lot of people are sitting on the fence and waiting for the early adopters to chime in on the quality of Sun's x86-64 offerings before spending money.
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2005-07-06
As far as penetration of x86-64 machines goes, well one of our Sun reps says a site he knows has 500 V20z's, a place I used to work at haas 40, and we currently have 10 of them.
Hmm, from what I've seen older SPARCs are by far the most common Sun hardware you'll see. It has an installed base and people generally trust it, until they see a need to replace it. The problem for Sun is that they know they need to do something with x86 but that isn't where most of their income comes from. It's like Novell with Netware, Groupwise etc. on the one hand and Linux and open source software on the other.