Cirrus, >The way I see it, the Itanium family being in high-end servers is a sure thing with the recent Compaq announcment and HP's and IBM's major backing, it's just a matter of time. Big bucks potential for Intel, especially if they can keep selling the processors for ~$4000 and ~$2000.
OK, I'll play devil's advocate. Even though the big guys IBM, HP and Compaq (and certainly Dell will be there), are getting behind Itanium with serious server development, will the end customer acceptance be there? Majorly new architecture, compilers, etc. are there to be contended with. Why won't customers just stay with tried and true Sun Solaris, or IBM AIX, or mainframes? Of course, the Compaq Non-Stop Kernel application is a high percentage probability of success on Itanium, as I don't see the customer base for those leaving Compaq (Tandem).
BTW, the direction of where your posts are "coming from" has definitely changed. But, you knew that.
Tony |
