From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Prince Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:28:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils Message-Id: <46E7E991.4050400@computer.org> List-Id: References: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> In-Reply-To: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Andrew Walrond wrote: > > I'm trying to conceive a valid business reason for Sun to be so > dismissive of the (surely massive?) gnu/linux hardware market, (even if > they would rather we used Solaris), but it eludes me completely. They are putting a lot of effort into linux on Intel and AMD. 18 years ago, SPARC was their one true way, but a few years have passed.