We cannot discuss hardware futures. What Alan was pointing out is that
there is difference between what hardware Oracle sells vs. what
OpenSolaris supports.
-Sanjay
On 05/28/10 11:38 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Alan,
They are not hardware rumors, I personally attended a Oracle presentation where
they specifically stated they will move away from 1-4 socket space. They had no
mention of AMD Opterons in there, just the high end Intel Xeons. I as a
potential future customer am hoping that in the rush to monetize the Solaris
acquisition Oracle doesn't restrict and move away Solaris to a AIX and HP-UX
style fortress, where it is installable only with high end machines. It looks
like that is happening now, time will tell all. Please follow the Redhat model
(Fedora + RHEL) and not the IBM model with respect to Solaris.
I also hope some Oracle sales people start reading some of these lists. So we
can get direct interaction with those folks with at least some of these
questions. The sales guy I heard was knowledgeable and was from Sun originally.
Thanks
--- On Fri, 5/28/10, Alan Coopersmith<[email protected]> wrote:
Amit Kulkarni wrote:
My question was: Is Oracle not offering Opterons in
Solaris but it still is supported in OpenSolaris.
Oracle has not announced any such
thing. Rumors of what hardware Oracle may
or
may not be selling in the future are not the same as
decisions on what hardware
Solaris supports or runs on, since it has always run on a
wider range of x86
hardware than Sun/Oracle currently sells.
Going forward, it will be impossible for me to run
official Solaris, but will it still be feasible to run
OpenSolaris on my choice of hardware.
Future versions of "official" Solaris will be based on the
OpenSolaris
code base.
--
-Alan Coopersmith-
[email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform
Engineering: X Window System
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