Very well, indeed
Before we announce our next generation of SPARC processors, that has been already revealed at HOTCHIPS24 and by Rick Hetherington, it is interesting to read what the Forrester is saying about SPARC/Solaris.
Soon, customers running an Oracle database on Non-Oracle Hardware will have an elegant, powerful, scalable and cost effective alternative to run their favorite Database on Oracle HW platforms.
Solaris 11.1 have already some ZFS tunable parameters for the Oracle Database, but much more than that have been also optimized on Solaris specifically for the Oracle Database.