[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

[Andrew McRae]

If you read the whole statement, and its context, rather than just pulling out a few words like this, then it's clear that what he means is "if SPARC was cancelled, then Oracle would not control the CPU that their OS (Solaris) runs on, and that would be bad for Solaris". He's not suggesting that anything is going to be killed -- quite the opposite.

On 7 Jan 2012, at 08:18, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:

> ...I read again the WayIn post, don't know if you can read it without being registered:
> 
> http://www.wayin.com/#!/games/727ef756-1a8a-48f5-82c9-0e3c10b077d6
> 
> well, these are few words by Scott McNealy....:
> "Solaris is not on Intel, so if Sparc goes, Solaris suffers too"
> 
> What do you read??
> 
> 
> 
> Inviato da iPad
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> Il giorno 07/gen/2012, alle ore 03:10, Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com> ha scritto:
> 
>> Ok, the sources were voices from some Oracle Italy guy who told a friend of mine that the higher plans of Oracle were to kill Oracle Intel in a couple of years and stick to just sparc...
>> I didn't believe that, but was still guessing if there may be any hidden truth leading somwhere.
>> I also found a strange post in WayIn (newest Scott McNealy investment) calling me back to
>> this matter.
>> 
>> Not that it may change anything to OI ecosystem, but who knows...
>> 
>> Anyway, Allan explained, and probably the Italian guy distorted what was th x86/x64 story.
>> 
>> Pure talking, anyway, no FUD.
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