On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Mark Bennett wrote:
It is now even more likely Solaris will revert to it's niche on SPARC over the next few years.
The probability of a "retreat to SPARC" direction is virtually zero. SPARC offers advantages in scalability, but its straight-line performance pales compared to current Intel and AMD CPUs. There is little indication that Oracle will change this situation.
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