Paul, Re: think you have it backwards.
It is SUN that won't be actively supporting IA64's - beyond ITanium.
Of course, this 10000000% OPPPOSITE to SUN's phony OPEN SOLARIS charade announced a few weeks ago.
I realize that Sun and Intel are probably doing whatever they want and trying to make it look like the other one is doing something dreadful, but:
Sun denied that it has reduced support for the Itanium chips.
Anil Gadre, vice president and general manager of Solaris Software at Sun, said Ottelini's
comments come as a stinging surprise and beg the question of what will happen to customers who
have agreed to run Solaris on IA/64.
`A hell of a valentine'
``This is a hell of a valentine to get today,' said Gadre. ``This is not in the interest of the market.'
BTW, I started to respond before your edit. My son and other young Linux, open-source advocates, are not at all happy with Sun's pretensions of being a part of the open source movement. He gets agitated just talking about it. Usually, he's pretty laid back. Ah, youth!
Really, really going to sleep on it. I am in Atlanta...not California.
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