SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oracle will continue developing Sparc microprocessors but focus on chips based on a single core design at a time, probably packing 32 of them in a single chip by 2015. The move is ...

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Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 during a presentation at the company's Redwood Shores, Calif., headquarters. The new engineered system exploits the same parallelism and ...

Hi all, I am going to be buying a pair of Sun Sparc 5 85Mhz systems. <P>I was just curious if anybody was using Sparc 5's on their networks, and if so for what purpose?<BR>Since I have never used a ...