From: dave@g4ugm.invalid   
      
   On 09/10/2025 00:02, Michael S wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   Looks like the Linux releases that support Sparc are more recent than   
   the Solaris builds...   
      
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