No more SPARC systems showcase in OOW. More Solaris/SPARC RIFs after OOW as everything goes sustaining.
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Oracle is a software company. They've never understood hardware. They never figured out how to sell hardware and have no stomach for the financials or risks that come with it. The only need they have for hardware is to stock their data centres.
and what could be O "interesting things" ? using Nvidia P100 cards someone else assembled?? because, you know, this is what O is doing today, hopefully tou have already seen the new x7 portfolio and the x7-c lineup.
all SPARC DAX&thelike projects have been cut, almost all SPARC engineering is gone. only (parto of) x86 engineering remains, and those people have never done anything but assembling a system.
geez, give me a break, O is not interested in that, HW dev (whatever kind) is gone, fullstop. O just want to make some money selling some kind of SW in the cloud, thinking that the infrastructure is just something useless. best position to fail miserably in a couple of years.
@PoTYEpX-kcw - What I'm seeing are the bitter laid off or soon to be laid off SPARC related folks, as well as, SPARC fan boyz, trying to make it seem like the understandable decline of SPARC along with the unavoidable global on prem decline (not only for Oracle, for all players), is the end of all HW dev at Oracle. Nope. Doesn't work that way. Granted, HW dev as an externally oriented activity is on the wane. But look at all the other cloud players who don't use off the shelf / white boxes. They all have HW dev sections. Some of them are doing very interesting things. One needs to do those sorts of interesting things in order to have a competitive advantage in the cloud.
Even when pre-RIF, Sustaining only fixes mission critical bugs via patches. All else would be fixed is Solaris SRU Service Packs. When SRU Service Packs dry up then customers will really know they're in trouble.
Sustaining support is only access to already published patches from MOS, there is no commitment to fix bugs or develop anything. It's purely phone & download access and good luck getting phone support to tell you anything except "download the patches from 20 years ago" Read the technical support policy docs - you get next to nothing in sustaining phase for software - there is NO hardware sustaining offered.
Dude, learn to read a map. The systems are in West, next to Big Data and Data Management.
Sustain Solaris until 2034? If you believe that sh!t; please give me a reason anyone in their right mind would stick around supporting a 18 yo operating systems. If you're a customer of Oracle, don't buy any Solaris products.