On Sat, 26 May 2012, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Does Oracle own "SPARC", or just the only company doing SPARC designs? (Have Fujitsu pulled out entirely of the SPARC space?)
Obviously, Fujitsu has *not* pulled out of the SPARC space. They have been designing new interesting SPARC CPUs and last I checked (couple of months ago), the fastest computer in the world uses SPARC CPUs.
While Fujitsu likely has full access to Solaris 11 sources, they may very well have an interest in the Illumos effort even if they are smart enough not to express this interest while they still have a close relationship with Oracle. Oracle does not seem to have an interest in the type of large systems that Fujitsu is building since Oracle is primarily interested in Oracle-designed T-series SPARC and running the Oracle application stack.
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