On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:11:25PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote: >I completely agree with everything posted by Spot and I (nor I assume >anyone) am aware of what Oracle's game plan is but they have announced >that they are planning to put more money into SPARC. > >http://www.osnews.com/story/21458/Oracle_To_Invest_in_SPARC_Wants_to_Be_Like_Apple_Cisco > >This would be nice because we could (hopefully) see some SPARC >workstations come back into play allowing people to become interested >in and contribute to the project once more. Don't know that it would >give the architecture enough of a user base to make it an applicable >architecture again, but its at least something I think should be >watched as time goes on. I very much doubt new SPARC workstations will happen. For a multitude of reasons, but primarily: 1) They will not be price competitive with their x86 counterparts 2) They will not have feature parity with their x86 counterparts because of 1. 3) The market for a non-x86 workstation is significantly tiny (and SPARC isn't exactly netbook friendly, so not really targetable there like ARM might be). I would really like to see a proliferation of secondary arches in Fedora, but I don't think 'workstation' is a viable usage model for them to get started. Most will have to focus on the type of hardware that actually sells for that arch, and yes I realize that can be at odds with some of the directions Fedora is going. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
