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Subject: [Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:23:03 -0400
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On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:20 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> 
> Would a BLU meeting on SPARC and possibly Solaris be of interest?
> What is Oracle doing with them?

Betting the bank on it.  The x86 architecture is getting there for high-end server use, but it isn't there, yet.  Alpha is dead.  That leaves SPARC and Itanium -- and Oracle recently announced that it will be dropping Itanium from its product support.

--Rich P.

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