On Nov 9, 6:07 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote: > On Nov 8, 6:04 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: [...snip...] Probing further, http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/itanium/overview.mspx it looks like you can download a trial copy of Windows-2008 Server for Itanium just by registering. NSR