[mrweasel]

I can’t really tell if they’re just dropping older SPARC systems or the architecture altogther.

OpenBSD will eventually face the same issues with older systems, and I believe they already dropped platforms because hardware couldn’t be replaced.

For newer SPARC system you could “just” buy one. Oracle doesn’t need to donate them, it would be nice if they did, but the community around Illumos, Debian and OpenBSD could raise money to buy theses systems.