On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Unfortunately at the cost of some of their year-long loyal SUN*W* > SPARC customers (those who still need SPARC for misc. reasons).
I have to say that when Sun ceased production of the last SPARC desktop, I winced a bit. And I agree, though, that the need for SPARC workstations in this day and age are clearly for the "misc. reasons" you speak of. In light of that, I cannot imagine those users being sufficient enough to keep design, manufacturing, and support for SPARC workstation a viable and profitable venture. I know some people are up in arms over this (witness today's post of a "revive SPARC desktops" petition on osol-announce) but as much as I like SPARC hardware, I cannot help but to think that those wishing for its return to the desktop are doing so more for nostalgic reasons than practical ones. If one is really hard up about running SPARC-only X apps, then by all means get a Intel workstation and a SPARC server to X-display the app from. /dale
