Re: Is anything else then Solaris used on UltraSparc Machines.

From: Joerg Schilling (js_at_cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 11/27/05

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    In article <Zu8if.38803$1l6.27078@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
    Wes Williams (KJ) <wes@classiarius.com> wrote:
    >> Cool. Might I suggest that you also make you program available
    >> for Solaris x86?
    >>
    >Thia may prove to be a great ideas as I know Sun says something to the
    >effect that there are more than 3 million users/downloads of Solaris 10
    >with the majority for x86.

    Two years ago, 2/3 od the Solaris downloads have been for x86, now
    it is at least 80%. None of the free OpenSolaris based distros currently
    supports Sparc.....

    It's interesting to see that a lot of companies still did not do a
    reality check on their stragety and behave as if Solaris only exists
    for Sparc. 

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