Re: Bad news

2017-09-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/04/2017 05:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > There is one talk about a SPARC emulator for x86, multiple talks about putting > your stuff into Oracle's SPARC cloud, i.e. on actual SPARC hardware. > > And companies trying to push you into the cloud is not Oracle-specific and > also >

Re: Bad news

2017-09-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/04/2017 05:00 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't think this is excessively-optimistic. From what I have learned, the staff that was let go was all in the Solaris department while we here are concerned about Linux on SPARC. So I am not worried unless there comes an official statement

Re: Bad news

2017-09-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 04/09/17 13:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 09/04/2017 03:11 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd suggest that excessively-optimistic claims when there's a strong indication that Oracle is sending Labor Day turkeys to its staff aren't helpful. I don't think this is

Re: Bad news

2017-09-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
"good day to bury bad news"? No, I haven't. We live in a time where you can't really hide such things anyway. It's not that everyone in the world is now focusing on North Korea and the hurricane in the US. At least here in Europe, people aren't too much worried about these things. And f

Re: Bad news

2017-09-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
tment and Retraining Notification (WARN) regulations will remain out of sight for extra days in jurisdictions that report them weekly, or extra weeks in States that publish monthly." There's also a hurricane and North Korea in play. Have you ever come across the phrase "good day to bury bad n

Re: Bad news

2017-09-02 Thread Rick Leir
There seems to be SPARC in Intel processors acording to the Register: "AMT is software that runs on Intel's Management Engine (ME), a technology that has been embedded in its chipsets in one way or another for over a decade, since around the time the Core 2 landed in 2006. It operates at what's

Re: Bad news

2017-09-02 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all, But the truth is that Oracle engineers have had a tough time over the past few years. I have no specific info, just unhappy sounds from sales and ex-sales folks. My small collection of Sparc machines will become odder to the new generations of tech folks! And all power to the

Re: Bad news

2017-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/02/2017 08:55 PM, BERTRAND Joel wrote: > I suppose sparc is definitively dead... No sources, just wild claims, the same wild claims that came up when Solaris was allegedly killed, yet there has been no statement whatsoever from Oracle. On the contrary, if you follow the sparclinux

Re: Bad news

2017-09-02 Thread BratSinot
Sparc from Oracle. But we have OpenSparc. For example Russian MCST (original Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies), or Fujitsu. 2017-09-02 18:55 GMT+00:00 BERTRAND Joel : > Hello, > > I suppose sparc is definitively dead... > >

Bad news

2017-09-02 Thread BERTRAND Joel
Hello, I suppose sparc is definitively dead... https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/08/31/oracle_stops_prolonging_inevitable_layoffs/ Regards, JKB