> A little bit expensive just for playing around. Such oem-/developer
> kits are as far as i know hard to get. And even if you get one the
> support is bad. You always have to send the whole kit back. Then
> you'll probably don't get a real full replacement and the story goes
> on. Have i mentioned the toll and transport costs each time you send
> the items back?
> My experience is based on Via Segment-Board. ~450$.
Well, there is that. $2,000 USD is BRUTAL pricing, and it most likely
comesfrom the designers trying to recuperate engineering costs upfront,
insteadof going for low profit margin high volume.
But, that hardware does have potential, who wouldn't want a 32 CPU SPARCsystem
to run as a storage node or a compile farm on a cheap budget?
That'd be swell! And yes, the price should be around $450 USD for a board
likethat.
But the biggest question is, would Solaris run on this hardware? Just
becauseit has a SPARC-based CPU, does not mean that the hardware is
actuallysupported.
For example, one could have completely exotic hardware with a generic
intelprocessor, and the code for the intel processor would not run at all
becauseit wouldn't know how to talk to the rest of the hardware.
The user guide for this hardware does not list Solaris anywhere (or at
leastAdobe Reader couldn't find any references).
If I had a board like this, I'd want it and expect it to run Solaris 10 (not
OpenSolaris!)and I would, for $2,000 USD, expect that Solaris 10 fully supports
this hardware.
I don't know about the rest of the people here, but I don't have the full
timeengineering resources necessary to do the porting of Solaris to this exotic
hardware.
Any takers?
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