On 06/06/2013 22:19, Dave McGuire wrote: > On 06/06/2013 05:15 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote: >> Let's get down to brass tax here: none of the Illumos developers (and >> that includes me) particularly care about SPARC, because that platform >> has little to no future. Hardware is only available from one or two >> vendors at tremendous markup, which means the only ones who are going to >> buy it are large enterprise customers who are buying as part of a >> solution package, rendering Illumos on SPARC no more than a small-time >> hobbyist's project running on phased-out old clunkers. > > This is a pretty narrow view. I respectfully submit that it doesn't > really reflect reality. SOME of it, yes, but not exclusively. > > But we've already established that the Illumos crowd thinks the whole > world should be running on PCs...therefore Illumos just isn't the answer > here.
This is emphatically *not* the case. First of all, "the Illumos crowd" includes me (I would hope) and I don't think that all of the world should be running on PCs. I don't care about a particular ISA - run Illumos on whatever you want. What I do care about for *my* projects is that they are cost-effective. And sadly, SPARC just isn't suitable for me. Perhaps for some it is, and they are completely free to submit patches, have they reviewed, and integrated, same as everybody else. -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss