Probably a great CPU. But not anything anyone is going to invest in since SPARC and Solaris is dead.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostProbably a great CPU. But not anything anyone is going to invest in since SPARC and Solaris is dead.
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostNot many new customers certainly (hence the recent layoffs), but plenty of existing customers who are looking for an upgrade. The cost of a new SPARC M8 server is lower in most cases than the labor cost and re-training cost of moving to a whole new platform. As a data point, my employer bought $500k of HP Itanium servers even knowing they're a dead end, because it's a drop-in upgrade for our older production HP-UX systems. We're steadily migrating our apps to RHEL/x86 but that process takes years, and we need modern vendor supported servers in the meantime, hence the $500k Itanium purchase. I.e. it's a stop-gap measure.
I say 6mos., because it's very unlikely that migration would take years unless everything is written in SPARC assembler.
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Originally posted by chuckula View PostTHANK YOU AMD FOR FORCING ORACLE TO DESIGN AND RELEASE THESE PARTS FROM SCRATCH IN APPROXIMATELY 90 DAYS!
Oh wait.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostProbably a great CPU. But not anything anyone is going to invest in since SPARC and Solaris is dead.
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostIf you want Solaris, you buy a SPARC machine from Oracle. If you want AIX, you buy a POWER from IBM. If you want HP-UX, you buy an Itanium from HP. The chip cost is not relevant at all, and is barely a drop in the bucket compared to the total platform cost and the vendor support contract. These are not tinkertoy peecee's for grandma to check her AOL email.
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Performance looks to be pretty nice for the applications it's intended for, but I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would go for these rather than the inevitable switch to x86 or ARM servers anyone using SPARC servers is going to have to go trough sooner or later. We're talking about a literal dead end architecture here, thou not because there isn't any room for improvement, but because ORACLE decided to kill any future development, so the indefinite support situation a lot of old school Cobol-running mainframes isn't going to happen here.
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> I guess a question that rises naturally is - does Oracle Linux run off it? And whether GCC toll kit(or any opensource complier) optimizes for those CPUs?
Yes, it does:
> https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/se...c-3665558.html
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