John, I guess we've beaten the AMD price cut subject to death. Article here about Itanium. One point I had missed is that IBM has apparently changed their name for their OS to run on Itanium from Project Monterey to AIX 5L version of Unix. That, Linux and Win64 are expected to be it.
This part is kind of weird:
It hopes to use Itanium and future 64-bit chips to overpower high-end computer systems from Sun Microsystems, IBM, Compaq Computer and others.
As if Intel would be delivering the systems. IBM and Compaq will, among others.
wideopen.com
Red Hat cashing in early on Itanium chip
8.22.2000 | Stephen Shankland | WWW
Intel's Itanium chip isn't even for sale yet, but already it's become a revenue generator for Linux company Red Hat.
The company today announced services, some of them free and some of them costing a fee, for companies that wish to bring their software or hardware to theItanium chip. The announcement was made at today's Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Calif.
Itanium, which has been delayed by Intel so that systems won't arrive until next year, is the first in a family of 64-bit chips from the company. It hopes to use Itanium and future 64-bit chips to overpower high-end computer systems from Sun Microsystems, IBM, Compaq Computer and others.
Intel believes the three operating systems that will prevail on the new IA-64 chip family are Linux, Windows 64 and IBM's AIX 5L version of Unix, formerly known as the product of Project Monterey.
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