Any Sun users interested in Sun's pending Opteron offerings? Any interest or
concerns?

Worried about impact on Sparc? Or think it's a great move?

And what will be the likely OS choice: Linux or Solaris?

Cheers,
Patrick Thibodeau
Senior Editor
Computerworld
202 333 2448

news.verizon.net wrote:

> Any Sun users interested in Sun's pending Opteron offerings? Any interest
> or concerns?
>
> Worried about impact on Sparc? Or think it's a great move?
>
> And what will be the likely OS choice: Linux or Solaris?
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick Thibodeau
> Senior Editor
> Computerworld
> 202 333 2448

I'm very interested in it. Want to see where it goes before I make any
decisions.

I'm not particularly worried about Sparc as I was at a roadmap briefing
around 6 months ago and they had this one quite well thought out at that
point.

As for OS choice - this is Sun we're talking about. It'll be Solaris. No -
Linux. Umm - definitely solaris/linux. Probably one or the other.

Realistically I'd hope that Sun would ship what the customers ask for rather
than trying to force them into a single path, especially on hardware which
can run either, however Sun have a *very* confused OS strategy which varies
depending on who is speaking and what project it's in relation to.

P.

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, news.verizon.net wrote:

> Any Sun users interested in Sun's pending Opteron offerings? Any interest or
> concerns?

Mildly interested.

> Worried about impact on Sparc? Or think it's a great move?

It's a good move, from the point of view that there's
obviously a market for low end x86 boxes. Sun might as
well be in that market, provided they can do it and avoid
the razor thin margins of the other players.

> And what will be the likely OS choice: Linux or Solaris?

That one's a no-brainer: Solaris.

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In article <Y9Rub.89423$p9.37588@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
news.verizon.net <oscar@verizon.net> wrote:
>Worried about impact on Sparc? Or think it's a great move?

May increase the number of large memory, 64-bit applications.

Meets the needs of customers who demand x86 price/performance
and would shop elsewhere if Sun didn't offer it.

John
groenveld@acm.org