From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   John Dallman  wrote:   
   >In article <20251009010203.000044ac@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com   
   >(Michael S) wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >That's about right. Sun would occasionally ask my employers to support   
   >Solaris on x86-64 (we'd supported it on SPARC for many years) but they   
   >were never able to demonstrate any customer demand. After the Oracle   
   >takeover, the requests stopped: Oracle wanted to sell proprietary   
   >hardware, until they lost interest in Solaris in favour of cloud.   
      
   Oracle wanted to be IBM: a single vendor that gives you a   
   soup-to-nuts "enterprise" solution with everything included,   
   from hardware up through services (and the attendent recurring   
   revenue).  I'm surprised they didn't do their own networking   
   gear (true story: Sun's first revenue generating product was a   
   3Mbit Ethernet board: https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/17/681/).  I   
   don't think they were ever interested in Sun's earlier,   
   traditional markets: workstations and so forth were   
   uninteresting.   
      
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