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SPARC T2 Gets Carrier Grade Linux
SAN JOSE, CA - April 16, 2008 - Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced it will port its Carrier Grade Linux and Workbench development suite to Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processor.

This will be the first carrier grade Linux for Sun's CMT processors. Sun's Netra Carrier Grade rack servers and ATCA blades will be the first CMT systems to run Wind River Carrier Grade Linux. ...Wind River profile, Operating Systems for SPARC servers

Editor's comments:-
in SPARC's 20 year history Linux software hasn't had much close contact with SPARC hardware - and mainly featured as a competitor.

Despite that, I was surprised to see that the word "Linux" appears on 24% of pages in the SPARC Product Directory.

That's more than I thought but probably 4x less often than in other "Unix" publications.

In August 2003 (which was not a very optimistic time for the SPARC market) I wrote an article - What's the Trigger Event that will Turn Around Sun's Revenue Decline? - in which I explored all the technology and business options that could make a significant difference to how the market viewed and reacted to Sun's SPARC products.

The analysis in that article is just as relevant now and still makes good reading. And I haven't changed a single word in this conclusion from that 5 years old article.

"The future availability of a strong SPARC/Linux product family will be beneficial to Solaris users - there will be a bigger market for processors, and so faster SPARC processors will come out sooner and at lower cost. It will cut down the arguments for users to migrate away from SPARC. It will also offer a credible platform for Sun to attack HP and IBM. It will be good for Sun, good for current and future SPARC users, and good for competition in the computer market."

3 years after that article was published HP wrote an (anti-Sun) article - The Real Story about Linux on Sun's SPARC - with some amusing and interesting points about what they referred to as Sun's "on again, off again" approach to Linux. That, and the stats quoted by HP may all be true, but I think the new combination of SPARC T2 with Linux is going to reduce the bonuses paid to many HP server sales people in the next year or so.
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