Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> * YTC#1:
>
>>> Right, at a time when their own Solaris machines were SPARC only and
>>> the x86 port was only a niche within the Solaris world.
>>
>> Because no one was listening that x86 was important......
>
> Sure, since Sun still believed that SPARC is the best thing since sliced
> bread.
It still is, why do you thin Oracle have bought them ?
:-)
>
>>> Sun might sometimes do something stupid, but they are not *that*
>>> stupid ;-)
>>
>> Maybe I am tainted, but there are/were some stupid decisions made.
>
> I never said Sun didn't make stupid decisions, in fact, they made quite
> a lot. Besides other problems like completely incompetent sales
> departments which made customers that have decided to buy turn away to
> other vendors.
>
> However, they didn't make their OS deliberately incompatible with all of
> their own hardware as the OP suggested. Even Sun wouldn't do that.
Still time :-)
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>> Sure, since Sun still believed that SPARC is the best thing since
>> sliced bread.
>
> It still is, why do you thin Oracle have bought them ?
> :-)
Because Oracle is more interested in other assets like MySQL and their
customer base, I don't think Oracle will ever do hardware. Why else
would they discuss about selling the hardware business to HP (if HP
wants it, ofo course)? ;-)
>> However, they didn't make their OS deliberately incompatible with all
>> of their own hardware as the OP suggested. Even Sun wouldn't do that.
>
> Still time :-)
They could produce a "Taliban" version that some time after installation
blows up the whole file system structure. Oh wait, that was Linux with
Ext4 ;-)
* shmerl:
>> I don't think Oracle will ever do hardware.
>
> They claim that they will: http://tinyurl.com/yzvv9rf
I don't know what is behind the link (I don't click on short URLs, if it
is relevant please post the original URL) but I know that Oracle said
they will. Of course they say that, because if they didn't customers
would abandon the Sun platform and go elsewhere which means the value of
the hardware business would decrease.
However, there also is the (not unfounded) rumor that Oracle wants to
get rid of the hardware part, probably to HP. I would be extremely
surprised if Oracle would engage in the hardware business, something
which has been very complicated for Sun already. All they are probably
interested in is the service business and MySQL.
I didn't make it a short URL. Probably your browser transforms long URLs in short ones. Check your addons (may be disable them for a test). Link it to the oracle official site.
Here is a quote:
Quote:
What are Oracle’s plans for SPARC?
Oracle plans to spend more money developing SPARC than Sun does now. SPARC is the world volume leader for mission critical, highly scalable computing. Over the past decade, Sun’s investments in multi-thread and multi-core technologies have extended the proven pedigree of SPARC from scalability and reliability to include leadership in energy efficiency, a critical requirement for customers worldwide today. We plan to enhance our investment in the SPARC processor and in SPARC systems, combined with software engineering, to continue to create leadership in highly energy efficient, scalable, and mission critical systems.
* shmerl:
> I didn't make it a short URL. Probably your browser transforms long URLs
> in short ones. Check your addons (may be disable them for a test). Link
> it to the oracle official site.
A browser is for viewing html pages only and not for newsreading, and my
newsreader certainly didn't make it a tinyurl:
"They claim that they will: http://tinyurl.com/yzvv9rf" definitely came
from your part, including the URL.
I don't see my post as a tiny URL, but I see your quoute as such. So it's for sure somewhere from your part May be it's your forum setting or something. Forum engine can modify links I guess.
Here is a screenshot:
(I'm posting a FULL link here, following with a link without http prefix, so whatever messes up links if it does, won't interfere in second case).
shmerl wrote:
> I don't see my post as a tiny URL, but I see your quoute as such. So
> it's for sure somewhere from your part May be it's your forum setting
> or something. Forum engine can modify links I guess.
Nope, its not at his end.
I, and probably others, saw it as well.
And note I *do not* use forums, I read via newsgroups where no
conversion takes place.
(fire up thunderbird, much easier to navigate than web forums)
>
> Here is a screenshot:
> (I'm posting a FULL link here, following with a link without http
> prefix, so whatever messes up links if it does, won't interfere in
> second case).
>
> http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/593...lconverted.jpg
>
> img17.imageshack.us/img17/5936/tinyurlconverted.jpg
>
>
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Nope. I don't have tiny url addons, and I don't like using tiny urls in general. Try to load the forum using simple Lynx and without logging in. You should see my URL as a normal address.
shmerl wrote:
> Nope. I don't have tiny url addons, and I don't like using tiny urls in
> general. Try to load the forum using simple Lynx and without logging in.
> You should see my URL as a normal address.
>
>
Must be the forum you posted through then.
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May be it's your forum setting or something. Forum engine can modify links I guess.
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