[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/13/2012 9:54 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 21:28 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I agree about SPARC. Some day in the not so far out future Larry
>> will look at the cost and decide to ditch SPARC and Solaris
>> for x86-64 and Linux.
>
> I don't think he'll ditch Solaris on the x86 platform though.

Solaris OS is cheaper than SPARC HW, so Solaris may be allowed
to stay for a decade more than SPARC.

But eventually it will also go away.

Arne