On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Ariane van der Steldt <ari...@stack.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > For development on OpenBSD, I need a sun v120 machine in Eindhoven, > the Netherlands. > It turns out, I don't have a 64-bit big-endian machine (and suns are > just awesome). > > Please contact me if you have one. > Thanks,
I assume this is for legacy compatibility work? While Sun made good hardware, My friends in Boston universities, such as MIT and Harvard, with Sun hardware have been.... extremely unhappy with Oracle's support. The Oracle presented upgrade paths for such hardware has been basically "replace the hardware and install a more supported OS" such as the Oracle rebundled RHEL called "Unbreakable Linux". OpenBSD might have some very useful openings for legacy support there, but I don't see Oracle being aggessive with releasing new Sun-style architecture there, especially since the advent of the x86 based Sun machines.
