Replies to post #40297 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[wbmw]

Sgolds, very good response. Thanks, and I acknowledge all your points.

[mmoy]

"2. The SPARC folks must be sweating bullets around now. Sun spoke highly of evolving SPARC into a massively parrallel high end architecture, this news is contrary to that position."

I think that most were tossed out a while ago.

[upc]

This news shows there is no special arrangement there. :(

How does it show this? There seems to me to be some possible confusion between software (porting Solaris to multiple platforms) and hardware (what type of systems Sun chooses to produce) going on. News of an alpha port of Solaris booting on an Itanium (and an attempt to port to IBM's Power cpus) allows one to conclude that Sun is not going to work with AMD on future K9 designs? Or is there some other information that I am missing that is sufficient to establish your claim? Thank you in advance.

upc

[chipguy]

I will note that they did not make any Power or Itanium product commitments, merely acknowleged that they are working on these Solaris ports. It may never see the light of day. I guess they are running the idea up the flag pole, and watching to see if anyone salutes.

The point is even trial balloons can destabilize an already
shakey and nervous Solaris/SPARC customer base. The
fact that Sun would disclose this news now indicates how
desperate it is to find something to halt the slide at their
high end.