"Julian Wolfe" wrote:
I'm not worried. I think Sun will be around many years from now.
Hmmm. I believed that too, until two things happened to me: (1) I
discovered my customers where all starting to use dual-cpu x86_64 cpu's
and they where *blazingly* fast and (1) I spent some time with an HP
server salesman who showed me some very high end, very reliable x86_64
based servers from HP.
Back in the day ("are we off topic, yet?" :-), solaris was the most
reliable thing going for 2, 4 and 8-way servers. And sun hardware was
very very reliable. But I think that day has passed. Too bad; I always
liked Andy "theese eess zee hardvare, and it verks" B. and his sparc
architecture.
(a friend worked on the sparc 1 and when andy delivered the first
hardware to the software folks he said "this is the hardware, and it
works!" - the famous last words, delivered with his accent. needless to
say, there were bugs, so I always remember that and chuckle :-)
-brad