From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net

In article ,
John Dallman  wrote:
>In article <20251009010203.000044ac@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
>(Michael S) wrote:
>
>> If we believe that submission of benchmark results is an indicator
>> of interest then it looks like Oracle lost interest in Solaris for
>> x86-64 approximately in 2012H2, i.e. few years earlier than they
>> finally decided to stop development of Solaris for SPARC.
>
>That's about right. Sun would occasionally ask my employers to support
>Solaris on x86-64 (we'd supported it on SPARC for many years) but they
>were never able to demonstrate any customer demand. After the Oracle
>takeover, the requests stopped: Oracle wanted to sell proprietary
>hardware, until they lost interest in Solaris in favour of cloud.

Oracle wanted to be IBM: a single vendor that gives you a
soup-to-nuts "enterprise" solution with everything included,
from hardware up through services (and the attendent recurring
revenue).  I'm surprised they didn't do their own networking
gear (true story: Sun's first revenue generating product was a
3Mbit Ethernet board: https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/17/681/).  I
don't think they were ever interested in Sun's earlier,
traditional markets: workstations and so forth were
uninteresting.

	- Dan C.

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