[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[HeCSa]

On 08/18/10 08:48 PM, Frank Middleton wrote:
> On 08/18/10 16:16, Hernan Saltiel wrote:
>
>> we're interested, but have no SPARC machine to work with...poor us...
>
> You can get used SPARCs at unbelievably low prices  - maybe they'll even
> pay you to take them away :-).  And since Sun IMO was always ahead of the
> technology curve, an older SPARC might have features even relatively new
> PCs might not. And what's really cool is that with the exception of 
> certain
> ancient frame buffers, you know the hardware will be supported. Well,
> until very recently, that is :-(.

You gave me some dirty ideas...I'll ping some old Sun customers, who own 
very old hardware, just in case they want to sell something.
Thanks!

>
>> Does anybody have any idea about some server to have access to?
>
> Sorry, not full time. I guess Sun's test farm isn't available unless
> you work for Oracle. Wouldn't it be nice if one of the cloud vendors
> set up a SPARC based cloud? Now there's an interesting business
> idea...
Indeed, agree with you...
Best regards,

HeCSa.

>
> Cheers -- Frank