[geeks] IBM to offer Solaris on it's servers...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>Date: 2007/08/16 Thu PM 11:10:26 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] IBM to offer Solaris on it's servers...

>On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> If they did that, it would be tremendously stupid.  Solaris on  
>> POWER is
>> the last thing they should want.
>
>There is Polaris, which is a port to PPC.  That would get close to  
>POWER.
>
>Supposedly one of the targets is Sony PS3, which would be a pretty  
>inexpensive Solaris workstation.
>
>see:
>
>http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=5

A $500-600 box is not really a cheap a Solaris workstation - you can assemble a 64 bit Solaris workstation for less than that using either AMD or Intel CPUs BUT you can't play PS3 games on that AMD/Intel box ;^)

Lionel