Hi Amit, I've tracked this info from Oracle for awhile and I'll base my comments on this post:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/oracle_spikes_opterons/ 'The biggest news for Ideas at the event was Mr Sigler's announcement that Oracle intends to go forward with just a single x86 processor architecture. The company will bring to market new Sun x86 server using the Intel processor architecture, and has no plans to develop any new servers with the AMD processors, including Magny-Cours. In fact, Mr. Sigler said that the company is in the process of EOL'ing the current family of AMD x86 servers.' My thoughts: 1. Oracle has stated they will support their product technologies on their primary hardware platforms. 2. The OEM hardware server vendors (i.e. Dell, HP, Gateway, IBM, etc) will sell multicore CPU server technologies certified with Oracle Solaris. The whole AMD versus Intel is just dependent on what the OEM vendors wants to support in the future. Oracle already has great support for both Intel and AMD CPU technologies - and many of the available AMD servers are certified to run Oracle Solaris 10u8. Oracle's AMD server line is VERY small (1-2 main AMD server offerings) versus their Intel Xeon server offerings. I had talked to HP a few months ago about certifying Oracle Solaris with their HP ProLiant DL165 G7 Server which supports the 8-12 Core AMD Opteron 6100 processors. New and faster AMD servers will tend to supercede the existing Sun Fire X4640 server and AMD blades from Oracle. So, phasing out these AMD servers over time just makes sense when you have the faster Intel Xeon servers on the other hand. Not a bad thing. I don't see Oracle trying to compete with the major server vendors on the hardware level - nor getting into gaming console market (smile). I think Oracle being a 'software' company is justified in consolidating their server line down to a few major CPU architectures and focusing on commercial software development. This gives breathing room for other server hardware vendors and small businesses to step up to the plate to provide AMD64 server support and services to their customers. ~ Ken Mays --- On Fri, 5/28/10, sanjay nadkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > From: sanjay nadkarni <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and AMD opteron support > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 5:44 PM > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > indiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
