Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late?

First time accepted submitter bobthesungeek76036 writes "On March 26th, Larry Ellison and always with fashionable haircut John Fowler announced the new line of SPARC servers from Oracle. Touted as the fastest microprocessor in the world, they put up some impressive SPEC numbers against much more expensive (and older) IBM hardware. Is the industry still interested in SPARC or is it too late for Larry to regain the server market that Sun Microsystems had many moons ago?" El Reg has a pretty good overview of the new hardware; the T5 certainly looks interesting for highly threaded work loads (there's some massive SMT going on with 16 threads per core), but with Intel dominating for single-threaded performance and ARM-based servers becoming available squeezing them for massive multi-threading, is there really any hope in Oracle's efforts to stay in the hardware game?

Re:it's a marketing problem

[c0lo]

they can sell if Oracle prices it right,

The right price for Oracle translates in whatever it takes for Larry to buy another island [forbes.com]

Re:it's a marketing problem

[Anonymous Coward]

The main obstacle IMHO is that those servers come from "we are indeed evil" Oracle ;)

Google: Don't be (seen as) evil.
Oracle: Fuck PR, we're evil.

I honestly don't know which motto is better.