Bailing on Solaris?

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2011-Jan-25 20:04:13 -0500, "Steven C. Peterson" <scp at zm.mainstream.net> wrote:
>As since our support expired we have not been able to get patches or even a return call from our sales rep about renewing.

This seems to be a fairly widespread problem.

>We currently run on Fujitsu Sparc 64-v based systems, PrimePower 650's,850,and 2500 machines. Primarily these machines run large java web apps (tomcat) and databases (MySQL, and very little oracle)
>
>Is their any possibility of getting freebsd running on these big systems?

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html says that FreeBSD _should_
run on the 650 and 850, though it hasn't been tested.  Have you tried
booting it?  Are you in a position to assist in getting FreeBSD running?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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