[geeks] IBM to offer Solaris on it's servers...

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Thu Aug 16 23:10:26 CDT 2007


On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> If they did that, it would be tremendously stupid.  Solaris on  
> POWER is
> the last thing they should want.

There is Polaris, which is a port to PPC.  That would get close to  
POWER.

Supposedly one of the targets is Sony PS3, which would be a pretty  
inexpensive Solaris workstation.

see:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=5

--Patrick



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