Nihil, Re: "I bet some flavors of UNIX are the main OS for ITanium."
No question, they will be very important, but main, in the long run, I don't know. Hard to count Microsoft out. HPUX might be first out since HP is the co-developer of Merced and has announced they would ship Merced based servers starting sometime mid 2000. Sun Solaris has been announced as UP AND RUNNING on Merced. I'm sure tuning, tweaking, etc. continue. Who'll ship those first? Not Sun (won't dirty their hands on Intel hardware). And then there's IBM's project Monterey, a UNIX operating system will be developed for Intel's IA-64 using IBM's AIX operating system's enterprise capabilities complemented with technology from SCO's UnixWare and IBM NUMA-Q's DYNIX/ptx operating systems.
The asteriked part is from IBM's Monterey website. Will be developed...it has since been announced that the Monterey software is running on Itanium.
Unix most likely comes out of the chute first because the OSs are there now, reliable and stable, whereas Win2000 isn't out yet (although I think it's been announced as running on Itanium also). Win2000 has the scalability issue to surmount. The only other Microsoft possibility right now, NT 4.0 is probably out of the question because of its scalability.
JMO,
Tony |
