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Cyber cynic: Solaris on Intel -- forget about it already

Way, way back in 1993 when I ran a Unix feature for PC Magazine, I helped review the first version of Solaris for Intel. I noticed at the time that Solaris on Intel wasn't the equal of Solaris on SPARC.

Some things never changed. Solaris on Intel was never the equal of Solaris on SPARC. Why? Well, after hanging out with the Solaris guys who were a bit tipsy at trade shows, they told me that Sun has never, ever wanted Solaris on Intel to be a real competitor to Solaris on SPARC.

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Posted 2002-09-20, 01:04 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Solaris-on-Intel Users Say Uncertainty is Stalling Development

Earlier this month, the head of the Solaris on Intel group finally lost patience with the slow progress on getting Sun to embrace a comprehensive plan for Solaris 9 on x86 architectures. The result has been a more-public-than-usual sign of stress between Solaris users and Sun over the fate of Solaris 9 options for a wide number of Intel platforms.

To focus more attention on the lack of a clear Solaris 9 on x86 roadmap, John Groenveld, head of Save-Solaris-on-x86.org, took out a full page ad in the San Jose Mercury News, in which he published an Open Letter to Sun CEO Scott McNealy, entitled "Shame on you, Scott. In it, Groenveld urged McNealy to make Solaris on x86 a commercial product "as quickly as possible."

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Posted 2002-09-14, 21:18 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Disgruntled Solaris x86 Users Turn Up Heat on Sun

"Sun has now obsoleted [my] x86 hardware investment," Al Hopper, president of Logical Approach Inc., of Plano, Texas, told eWeek last week. Hopper's company bought several dual-processor x86 systems from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last year. "We can't afford to scrap our hardware infrastructure just because Sun decides [Solaris on x86] wasn't a viable product or that they could make more money elsewhere."

More: eWeek

Posted 2002-09-11, 23:38 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Solaris users slam Sun Intel plans (again)

Sun Microsystems Inc is still facing protests from unhappy Solaris x86 users despite announcing the resurrection of the Unix operating system for Intel Corp-compatible processors at last month's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Matthew Aslett writes.

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Posted 2002-09-06, 18:55 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

Sun declines user's challenge to debate Solaris x86

SUN MICROSYSTEMS HAS responded to an angry user's public challenge to debate the future of a version of the Solaris operating system for Intel processors, saying the company is working on the issue in private and chastising the user for attacking Sun chief Scott McNealy.

John Loiacono, an executive vice president at Sun, defended the company in an e-mail message Wednesday to the disgruntled user. The user, John Groenveld, associate research engineer at Penn State University, posted an open letter entitled "Shame on you, Scott," in the Tuesday edition of the San Jose Mercury.

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Posted 2002-09-06, 18:50 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
 

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