[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[Philip J Robar]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Eugene wrote:

> Sun has been in the enterprise for many years now without
> an open architecture.

You and I must have very different ideas of what open means. Let's see:

Solaris, perhaps the most standards compliant OS available. Now an  
open source project.

NFS: Designed and given away by Sun, now an IETF standard.

Window system based on X.

SPARC: Architecture owned and licensable from the non-profit SPARC  
International.

BIOS: OpenFirmware - IEEE 1257.

VME: IEEE 1014

SBUS: First a fee-less license with the spec in the public domain,  
later IEEE P1496.

PCMCIA/PCI/USB/SCSI

I don't know how the SPARC compatible market is doing these days but,  
I hear that Fujitsu still makes some nice SPARCS.


Phil