How similar is x86 compared to Solaris 8 or 9 on SPARC?

How similar is x86 compared to Solaris 8 or 9 on SPARC?
Thanks.

Extremely similar. The vast majority of Solaris is built from the same source code for both platforms. You will find all of the same commands in places like /usr/bin and /usr/dt/bin.
Of course, the instruction sets are different. While all of the same commands may exist in those places and they implement the exact same functions with the exact same options, the binary files are different. You can't run x86 binaries on SPARC or vice versa.
While the Solaris binaries provide the exact same functionality, the same is not necessarily true with other packages that can be added. Sun's Java Enterprise System is supposed to eventually have all the same programs for SPARC and x86, and that is almost true already. StarOffice is only available for now for SPARC, but OpenOffice is available for both. Third party software may exist only for one or the other, but this is improving fast. A huge amount of Solaris x86 software can be installed from blastwave.org and other sites.
If you are a developer, there is a good chance that your code for SPARC will work on x86 with just a recompile. The system call APIs are identical. If it does not work with just a recompile, it is because you have a bug in your code or you used non-portable constructs like assuming a particular byte order (SPARC is big endian, x86 is little endian).
Solaris and most SPARC hardware both come from Sun, so of course Solaris supports all the hardware you are likely to find shipped with a SPARC machine. You can buy x86 machines from Sun, but you are likely to look elsewhere. Since Sun does not control what is in the machine, Solaris may not support all the hardware. Again, this situation is getting better. Still, you should consult Sun's Hardware Compatibility List. Note that Sun isn't good about saying this, but Solaris 9 supports all of the hardware in the Solaris 9 list and all of the hardware in the Solaris 8 list. You must look in both places to see what Solaris 9 supports.
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