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.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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