> ... I would buy Suns hardware running it any day but
> they have not shown enough long term commitment to
> the x86 platform for me.
Well, they seem to have pretty much bet the company on it.
Or did you mean that their track record on x86 is short?
The latter is certainly the case.
If Sun isn't committed to x86 long term, then there will
be no Sun long term. Sun's strategy may fail, but I don't
see any abandonment of x86.
Heck, even Apple is on x86 now, and it's unlikely that
they will jump to another ISA anytime soon. I'm no
advocate for x86, but the message is pretty clear here
(except, apparently, to the remaining passengers on the
good ship Itanic :-)
I mean when it suits them they can say, nope were not supporting x86 anymore, and they have done that in the past!
That's a shame.
I consider myself an AMD person for price/performance reasons, but as soon as I heard that intel had some sort of plans to bring itanic to the desktop I've been one of those who wanted it. The FPU performance is unreal and this type of architecture would really have promise.
I've always thought that it's time to wipe the slate clean but every day it gets harder and harder.
First Sun, now Apple.
*sigh* x86 will never die.