Re: Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the near future???

I think they are actually trying to pull it out of the dumpster, 
whether from desperation of marketing acumen no one knows. I think 
they've gone back to the 'if we can get them hooked on a dual opteron 
box, we can sell them some massive E10000' or whatever.



On Nov 18, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Christopher Browne wrote:

> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, csmiga@n2bb.com 
> (Christoper Smiga) transmitted:
>> Does anyone know if there is going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in
>> the near future. What is the decission to develop on this platform
>> since Sun is pushing Solaris x86 harder than ever.
>
> If you're running Solaris on x86, then you're free to try PostgreSQL
> out there.  It works quite well on SPARC; it is not evident that/why
> it _wouldn't_ work on the x86 version.
>
> On the other hand, the impression that I got was that the "pushing"
> taking place with Solaris x86 was more of the "into the dumpster" sort
> than "pushing hard to customers."  I thought their new strategy
> involved Linux on x86...
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