Do you find it just the least bit curious, that Compaq is taking the role, news release-wise at any rate, that you would expect from Intel's partner in this Hewlett Packard, in fact, hasn't HP been strangely silent, or is that just my imagination?
Good point. One reason Compaq is making all the noise might be because they have the most work to do, since they just announced the switch last June, whereas HP has supposedly been working with Itanium since day one. But it has been quiet on the HP front, hasn't it.
Remember the uproar that HP stirred about 2 years ago when they announced they were going to skip Itanium????
The uproar was because HP correctly figured that Merced wasn't good enough, needed to wait for McKinley, so they extended their PaRISC based efforts further. The PaRISC based servers they went on to develop are upgradable to Itanium though, but, again, nobody will do that until McKinley, IMO. |
