26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
10:07 p.m.
On 01/26/2012 01:49 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I know that Fujitsu is (and has been) doing a LOT of SPARC
development; their SPARC implementations have been a good bit better
than Sun's for at least five years now. One of the things that happened
right around the time of the Oracle acquisition (perhaps a bit after,
not sure) is that Sun started selling Fujitsu SPARC machines.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Huh?
They've dramatically increased the pace and funding of SPARC
development and are pushing it pretty hard, much harder than Sun did.
At least as of my last information, which admittedly was a year ago.
Has their stance changed?
I know about the Sparc T4 announcement, so the following from the
article has me scratching my head:
"Oracle paid $7.4 billion (including debt) for Sun and discontinued
the Sparc line..."
My assumption was that the author knows something about Oracle that I
don't (which isn't terribly difficult). It's possible that he means
that the likes of Fujitsu are really doing the development on the
Sparc and that Oracle has little interest in the CPU itself other
than building a box around it.
Anyone else have a clue?