Sun’s SPARC platform may have become, in tester’s Paul Venezia’s word, “bereft” since its heyday way beak when in the late eighties and early nineties. But nowadays, “the SPARC platform still has some kick left, and while that may not be in clock speed, it’s certainly in the threads,” Venezia writes. “Overall, the UltraSPARC T2 and the T5120 build upon the hallmarks of the first-generation UltraSPARC T1-based servers, and remind us that although the SPARC CPU may have been marginalized in recent years, it hasn’t surrendered, and may in fact be making a comeback.” Read the full lab test. Technology Industry