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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (73563)	3/5/2002 8:59:12 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Gopher, Re: "Fortune 500 company looking for the most reliable server system to run your enterprise software? Telephony system vendor with a 99.999 availability target? You will probably go for Solaris. Maybe AIX, because IBM still has clout in some places. But IA64 is way too immature." Immature or not, Compaq and HP are transitioning their complete line of enterprise servers to IA-64 over the next 5 years. IBM and Dell will be selling Itanium, too, though I don't know to what degree they plan on devoting their business groups. This may not count for "high volume", but it's also a very high margin market, so you can make a lot of money without selling a lot of units. You disagree. That's fine. I'm happy to go alone on this theory, but I think most people here are making too bold of a call when they predict failure, as few people (if any) here truly understand the markets that Intel wants Itanium to be successful in. wbmw