Intel Itanium

[William Park]

HP sues Intel for "breach of contract".  It will be tied up in courts for years, 
allowing lawyers' children to go to Harvard.
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William



----- Original Message ----
> From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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> Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 4:37:57 PM
> Subject: [TLUG]: Intel Itanium
> 
> Afternoon,
> 
> Interesting press release from Oracle.  They are no  longer supporting
> Itanium.  What I found odd though is they claim Intel  management
> encouraged them to dump it.  How viable will it be to sustain  it with
> limited software "ecosystem" to borrow a misused word by  tech
> journalist.
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/346696
> 
> From a bit of  googling, it seem only HP unix support it now.  That
> kind of making it  hard to ever be profitable.  And if Intel do axe it
> eventually, what  happen to HP Unix considering it seem to only run on
> Itanium at the  moment?
> 
> William
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