Since Fujistu uses the SPARC, Sun clearly already has a partner... but who knows, maybe Fujistu isn't the best partner or perhaps the don't want to continue with SPARC either. This is all speculation, after all. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Fujitsu makes a Sparc supercomputer...96-100 CPUs and more. I doubt Apple is up to that challenge.
Solaris *was* ported to PowerPC some years back, but was put to rest by Sun (just as the Intel support was the other day). I still think there's references to it in some man pages...
It's not likely they'd do it again, the US-III is likely a better CPU compared to the G4 than the pre-US-I CPU:s were compared to the then current PPC.
Why switch and burn your existing customer base (something which Sun is very careful not to do in general).
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Since Fujistu uses the SPARC, Sun clearly already has a partner... but who knows, maybe Fujistu isn't the best partner or perhaps the don't want to continue with SPARC either. This is all speculation, after all.
Fujitsu makes a Sparc supercomputer...96-100 CPUs and more. I doubt Apple is up to that challenge.
-Moazam
Solaris *was* ported to PowerPC some years back, but was put to rest by Sun (just as the Intel support was the other day). I still think there's references to it in some man pages...
It's not likely they'd do it again, the US-III is likely a better CPU compared to the G4 than the pre-US-I CPU:s were compared to the then current PPC.
Why switch and burn your existing customer base (something which Sun is very careful not to do in general).