Sun releases open-source Sparc designs

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ho hum .....

To the best of knowledge, Sparc chips have almost always been open sourced. At least they were in the early/mid 90's with the Ross HyperSparc line such as used in my SparcStation20. How do you think Toshiba got the designs for the Sparc-based chips it produces? Weren't the mid-90's Suns best years in terms of sales (servers, workstations, Solaris OS) and service contracts? Do we see a correlation?

Far from being a sign of a failing company, its a sign of confidence in its product that they will open it up for peer review and outside manufacture as they've done with most Sparc cpu's since almost day one.


To all of this I say "You go Sun. Reclaim your dominance in the mid-range* server market**."


*mid-ranged being servers larger than Wintel/AMD can handle but not as big as Big Iron mainframes such as IBM's zSeries. Think Sun's E10K server line (16 cores minimum, 16Gb RAM expandable to 128 cores and 1TB RAM).

**Historically, this market has been the stock exchanges, trading firms, financial industry, and universities.

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