Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

questions about how Oracle plans to support this offering?

They have no plans on supporting it, because there's no-one left to support it. They just want to sell it.

this is just the expected M8 presentation. unfortunately, nothing after M8. will you buy a dead technology knowing is dead?

yes, M8 is a great cpu. but: 1. it's expensive and consumes tons of W 2. it's legacy 3. it runs Solaris (no dev, no app, no support from isv) 4. it has no real cloud counterpart (SPARC cloud is a joke) 5. skylake is better in almost every real aspect when you consider the price to the point that... 6. Oracle itself will use custom skylake systems for its cloud instead of SPARC, as recently presented (X7-c), including an nvidia p100 accellerator board.

Will there be Q&A to ask some, uh, questions about how Oracle plans to support this offering?

I'm rivweted to my chair awaiting this announcement 4 hours after receiving my final paycheck. :P

Oracle will continue to sell the product and make better profit margins. It's a dead end product but there are dumb people out there who will still buy it.

If it's true that Solaris Studio got axed ( @P3fbgtN-vwu ), what does that say? Best case is they think they can just contribute what they need to GNU. Worst case is that they don't really care about performance or processor-level innovation going forward. Cash cow mode.

I thought that Sparc was finished...so much for the naysayers on this board

Yeah, this sure proves Sparc isn't finished, thought no one.

@P3EYk98-wcb Thanks for your kind words.

I posted it because I thought people would want to know what a great sense of timing Oracle has.

I thought the signature "The SPARC Platform Team" -- that's from the registration page! -- was an especially tone-deaf addition.

Of course we have inventory to liquidate. Oracle will always sell stuff it has no intention of supporting.

Re: what does Chief Corporate Architect do. One of the things he did was deliver layoff news via conference call to people who got canned on 9/1. Call may have been prerecorded...not sure about that...and was less than 5 minutes long.

OP - GFY, don't need this oracle advertising of make belief sh-- on this board

What exactly does a Chief Corporate Architect do? I'm puzzled.

I thought that Sparc was finished...so much for the naysayers on this board

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