Even if Sun were to move to just using Fujitsu SPARC-64 chips, they're still SPARC, so the U45 is still a good choice. Obviously Sun is going to go away from the US-IIIi processor eventually (I don't think the roadmaps are too secret, are they), they've already got the US-IV/US-IV+ and the T1 to replace it.
If you want to look at a true Sun Opteron, there the U20 and U40, which you can get with up to 2 Opteron 280s. The existing T1 systems are all server class, but you could look at a low end T1000 now that they've been released. Not too sure the T1 processor is great for development/compiling, we had some benchmarks posted earlier that the build is not well optimized for heavy parallelism. You could try rolling your own, which is what most of us have done. For 2-4k, you could roll a really sweet system. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
