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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. Re:Can we say behind the times??? by confused+one · · Score: 1, Troll
    Actually, it's you who may not get it...

    Sure, Linux and BSD run on PPC, Sparc, x86 & AMD64 hardware. Some companies don't want to run Linux; they'd rather run a fully supported & certified, scaleable Unix. If Sun can get Solaris to run on all of these platforms (including Power4 & Power5), then they'll be the only Unix vendor in this position.