[geeks] Open Solaris, while I've been asleep.

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:07:05PM -0700, velociraptor wrote:
> The appliance already exists, it's called an Exadata, costs ridiculous
> amounts of money, and runs (wait for it) Linux on Sun x86 hardware.  I
> know, our mgmt bought one, oddly enough.

I bet you they will move Exadata to Solaris (but possibly still on x86)
in the future.  The current Exadata looks like they simply took the old
Exadata based on HP hardware and quickly swapped Sun x86 for HP x86.