thus Alan Coopersmith spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> thus Alan Coopersmith spake: >>> Octave Orgeron wrote: >>>> Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. >>> Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - >>> there's no more pushing to that point to do. >> IBM sells POWER-based workstations. I like workstations, I like *real* >> workstations even more. Sun should not rely on x86/x64-only machines, IMHO. > > IBM is only selling them for a few more days: > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/intellistation/?cm_re=masthead-_-products-_-workstations > "The IBM IntelliStation Power 185 and IBM IntelliStation Power 285 have been > announced as a hardware withdrawal from marketing with an effective date of > January 2, 2009." > > The era of the RISC workstation seems to be over.
I hope not. If so, I'd really have to work on my sgi/Sun/HP/IBM machines till the day the last dies (which might take some decades, given that I saw a Sun IPC recently which was still 'on duty' in a small datacentre)... WRT the IBM machines: I'm pretty sure they will announce Power6-based machines soon, thusly withdrawing the Power5(+) and PowerPC 970 (aka G5) based ones... Cheers & happy new year, Timo _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
