[OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

[Fred Liu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com]
> Sent: 星期五, 一月 20, 2017 8:44
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana; Apostolos Syropoulos
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near
> 
> On 01/19/17 12:38 AM, Fred Liu wrote:
> > From that roadmap, my understanding is there is no on-premise and
> standalone Solaris and SPARC releases after 2017 and everything goes into
> cloud.
> 
> Then you're misunderstanding the roadmap, which shows both on-premise &
> cloud
> releases going forward until at least 2021.
> 
> > So data-machine and fishwork-storage are some kinds of variations from
> Solaris and SPARC, if users want to touch by hand.
> 
> ZFS Storage Appliances ("fishworks") use x86 CPUs and their own OS versions,
> with their own release schedules.   You can't make any assumptions about
> them based on the roadmap for CPU's they don't use or OS versions they don't
> use.
> 

OK. See. I might be impressed by the recent fud about RIF of Solaris/SPARC team. Anyway SPARC on cloud is good try but definitely has impact on on-premises implementation from my point of view. Nobody wants to see the demise of SPARC. Let's see how it goes.


Thanks.

Fred