From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 17:00:31 -0400   
   Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
      
   > On 10/8/2025 3:45 PM, Dan Cross wrote:   
   > > In article ,   
   > > John Dallman  wrote:     
   > >> In article <10ad18c$2d4$1@reader1.panix.com>,   
   > >> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:     
   > >>> Solaris and HP-UX are on their last legs.     
   > >>   
   > >> Oracle still say they're supporting Solaris 11.4 with mainstream   
   > >> support until 2031 and offering extended support until 2037, but   
   > >> that's 20 years after the final CPU model, the M8, was released.     
   > >    
   > > I wonder what percentage of Solaris installations are on SPARC   
   > > and what are x86 at this point.  2037 is only 12 years away.     
   >    
   > Back in the Sun days Solaris/SPARC was way more common than   
   > Solaris/x86-64 (and Solaris/x86 before that).   
   >    
   > And I doubt it has changed. I don't recall a time where   
   > Solaris/SPARC was considered dead and Solaris/x86-64 was   
   > considered to have a bright future. And one migration   
   > Solaris/SPARC->Linux/x86-64 is cheaper than two migrations   
   > Solaris/SPARC->Solaris/x86-64->Linux/x86-64.   
   >    
   > Arne   
   >    
      
   If we believe that submission of benchmark results is an indicator of   
   interest then it looks like Oracle lost interest in Solaris for x86-64   
   approximately in 2012H2, i.e. few years earlier than they finally   
   decided to stop development of Solaris for SPARC.   
      
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