Solaris 10 binary compatibility sparc/x86

Hi,
is it possible to use software compiled on Solaris 10 sparc on a x86 system?
Thanks for any hints in advance.
Burkhard

That's what I expected, but if you look at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ontheinside/
They say:
Guaranteed application compatibility from release to release as well as between SPARC and x86 platforms so you can run the same OS from your desktop to your datacenter.
???

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