{"id":735,"date":"2011-09-28T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2012-10-14T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T22:12:40","slug":"sparc-t4-looks-to-be-good-enough-to-stave-off-defections-to-x86-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"SPARC T4 looks to be good enough to stave off defections to x86, Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For those who are still members of the Sparc\/Solaris installed base\u2014those who haven&#8217;t headed for x86 or Itanium already\u2014the T4 is potentially good news. It provides a way to preserve investments in existing Solaris skills and software while getting a significant performance boost over the year-old T3. The T4 will likely stop some defections, buy Oracle time as it prepares its next generation of processor, and reduce the company&#8217;s dependence on reselling Fujitsu SPARC 64 systems to run its own database.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2011\/09\/sparc-t4-looks-to-be-good-enough-to-stave-off-defections-to-x86-linux.ars\">SPARC T4 looks to be good enough to stave off defections to x86, Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are still members of the Sparc\/Solaris installed base\u2014those who haven&#8217;t headed for x86 or Itanium already\u2014the T4 is potentially good news. It provides a way to preserve investments in existing Solaris skills and software while getting a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[114,292,61,186],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-computer-architecture","tag-cpu","tag-linux","tag-sparc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}