19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
2:40 a.m.
On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:
You're right
about Alpha, Mips, and Itanium, but you're badly
misinformed about SPARC. It is neither on life support, nor is
Larry reaching for the plug. In fact, he has publicly stated that
SPARC development will be *increasing*.
The sad fact - and I currently admin more than a couple of
Solaris servers - Sun is doing everything in its power to alienate
its customers and become a casualty in the UNIX wars.
They do have pretty bad management. They're not alienating *me*,
though, because I don't deal with their management. If I need
something of theirs, I buy it from them. If you talk to their suits,
you're, well, talking to suits. Don't do that.
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I was talking
about "new personal computers", not cellphones,
PDAs,
servers, gaming consoles or derivatives thereof.
Servers...beyond POWER and x86, what is there? Alpha and MIPS are
dead, the Unisys architectures are emulated, Itanium is
stillborn, and
SPARC is on life support (with Larry reaching for the plug). Solaris 10 is a misbegotten joke,
WTF? What kind of crack are you smoking, Doc? I'm running it on
about twenty systems now and couldn't be happier. The performance is
amazing, the functionality is amazing, the reliability is
amazing...it has literally changed the way I "do computers" for both
myself, my employer, and my other clients. I've used pretty much
every UNIX variant over the years, and I can honestly tell you that I
don't know how I got along without it for so long.
and Sun has changed the roadmap for the next version
too many times
for anyone to trust its placement in any large deployment.
"Roadmap"? Who pays attention to that suitly crap?
SXCE is dead as stone, and OpenSolaris is just Fedora
with a
different kernel and really shitty admin tools.
Fedora...? Doc! Go do some reading and learn what OpenSolaris
is. I think you're talking about Nexenta.
As far as hardware goes, Fujitsu just might save
SPARC, but if
they do it will be in spite of Sun & Oracle. As stands today, in
terms of raw processing power, scalability, power/thermal
management, and sane OS development, SPARC is 10 years behind POWER
with no clear means of closing the gap.
I'd give you TWO years, not ten. The problem is that AIX is twice
that many years behind Solaris in terms of manageability and lack-of-
cruftiness, with no reasonable OS alternatives for the godlike hardware.
Wow, excellent troll job, Doc. ;)
-Dave