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Solaris Coming to IBM's Power Architecture?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the and-other-ponderings dept.

johnm writes "Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's pony-tailed number two, dropped this little snippit in his blog where he talks extensively about what he thinks 'open' means: 'For example, as we continue porting Solaris onto IBM's Power architecture (demo coming soon!)...' Does this mean you'll soon be able to ditch OS X and stick on Solaris 10 onto Macs?" While coming off as an ad for Java, Schwartz also raises some valid points about Unix and migration.

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  1. IBM's POWER != PowerPC by DamienMcKenna · · Score: 1, Redundant

    PowerPC is (or at least was) a collaborative effort between the AIM innitiative: Apple, IBM and Motorola. It borrows a lot of concepts and (with the G5) technology from the POWER series but they are not AFAIK compatible. The POWER series is used for IBM's big iron servers and workstations.

    Damien