Word is that Sun is dropping the Rock processor. Given the Oracle acquisition of Sun, which alone seemed to constantly be promising interesting tech this last decade and never quite living up to the promise, I’ve been wondering if together they’ll come up with plan that means a resurgence of Sun hardware and software and what especially will become of Solaris. Oracle on its own seemed to be betting big on linux the last few years. I guess how most of that pans out remains to be seen, but it sounds like at least on the hardware side their non-x86 hardware’s going away.
At a really technical level, transactional memory was supposed to be a big part of the Rock processor…I’m curious what this means for the future of TM? Given what I’ve read of it and the way it is actually implemented, I’ve never been convinced it is truly inherently better than what we currently have.