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[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> I'd bet a week's
> pay that Intel kills Itanium before 2012.

I think this will be sooner than that. Once CSI (Quickpath?) is out into
the marletplace and vendors start to sell "mainframe" class 8086
systems, Intel/HP will not wait 3 years to announce the end of IA64.
Unlike Alpha, they will wait for hardware to actually be at customers
with proven performance before announcing the end of that IA64 thing.

I personally wouldn't be surprised to see the announcement by the end of
2009.

How much profit do HP-UX/VMS/NSK generate per year in system sales ?
If HP has to subsidize Intel for IA64 to the tune of $3 billion per
year, and the above systems don't generate $3 billion worth of profit on
system sales per year, then HP is better off killing IA64 and going 8086
for the surviving OS.

Big question is which OS will be ported to 8086.

What percentage of enterprise customers are still on legacy hardware
(Pa-Risc, Alpha, VAX, MIPS) ?