This morning, few thousands showed up to cheer up Screven's launching the last SPARC chip M8 and its deadend roadmap.
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I keep hearing Fujitsu is focusing on ARM servers and divesting themselves of R&D on the Sparc ISA.
Fujitsu: Why we chose 64-bit ARM over SPARC:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/fujitsu_arm_post_k/
I keep hearing Fujitsu is focusing on ARM servers and divesting themselves of R&D on the Sparc ISA.
SPARC will be around for a while longer. Fujitsu will see to that. They will not just leave their customers stranded like we do.
Remember Fujitsu's PRIMERGY Itanium servers? Probably not.
SPARC will be around for a while longer. Fujitsu will see to that. They will not just leave their customers stranded like we do. For all I know, Fujitsu might even be working on new chips. But Oracle is totally done designing new SPARC chips. We're bailing out of this business as fast as possible.
What about the Sparc servers Fujitsu build for Oracle? The M12 just came out a few months back.
https://www.oracle.com/servers/fujitsu-sparc-servers/index.html
Accidentally missing from the site for 2 months. I know it is hard to imagine, but even Oracle employees make mistakes sometimes.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2611476/java/oracle-restores-java-time-zone-update-tool.html
If you think it was intentional and and a few negative Slashdot posts changes Oracle's mind, you don't know Oracle very well. LE/MH/SC would strangle dozens kittens on live television if they thought it would make them a few extra dollars.
What are you talking about? TZ updater has always been free.
Always been free huh? What are you talking about?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/08/051235/oracle-discontinues-free-java-time-zone-updates
screw java folks with the DST updates
What are you talking about? TZ updater has always been free.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzupdater-readme-136440.html
2034 - so no need to fix the Unix time epoch problem. Genius!
I am sure they'll push out a "patch" and charge customers appropriately for it, just like they wanted to screw java folks with the DST updates.
2034 - so no need to fix the Unix time epoch problem. Genius!
would be very funny if an HW bug show up with no engineers left to solve it
Typically , most processors that add new hardware features have a "chicken bit" to turn off that feature if any bug , and instead run it in software (at the expense of lower/worst performance) .
it works for performance bugs , but not for showstopper bugs.
.... no comments on SPARC future beyond M8....
They riffed dang nearly the entire SPARC ME team, what future is there?
really an embarassing show.... no comments on SPARC future beyond M8.... just the confirmation that S11.4 is delayed until fall 2018. no questions allowed, no comments, only clapping at command.
would be very funny if an HW bug show up with no engineers left to solve it..... Solaris is struggling to have bugs resolved, support is in "file and forget" mode, unless it's a severe security issue, and even in that case it will take ages to solve given the very few resources available....
Even bug fix is questionable.
It's just code for "they will sell you maintenance contracts until that date". aka they will take your money. It doesn't mean new features or hardware.
"as important as having someone answer the phone when something goes awry."
We won't have that either. On paper it will be supported, but in a few years no one at Oracle who knows Solaris well will be left. Legacy products at Oracle get cut to sheds. Already, we can't keep up with the demand for help from customers who already pay us.
"In the Sparc M8 webcast given by the server top brass, Ed Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle and second only to Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, stressed that Solaris would be supported to at least 2034, and he said “at least 2034” twice to make sure everybody heard it.
But having an operating system supported is not the point. Having a steady stream of improving hardware that makes it worth invest in is just as important as having someone answer the phone when something goes awry."
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/18/m8-last-hurrah-oracle-sparc/
And THAT, friends, is why you can expect demand to rapidly decline despite all of LE's and ES's reassurances.