[Info-vax] Gabriel Consulting Group surveys customers about Oracle's recent actions

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-16 10.55, Keith Parris wrote:
> On 5/13/2011 7:13 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> In the heydays of Alpha, SPARC was seen as the underdog with no future.
>
> Those days have returned.
>
>> But SPARC got its second life when IA64 came around and became the new
>> underdog. And now others are poking fun at IA64.
>
> Not so much anymore. Itanium had a slow start, but Itanium server sales
> surpassed SPARC several years ago.

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You do know that "server sales" for HP is not the same as Itanium sales, 
I hope? Of those numbers, only a small fraction are Itanium.
And for the other manufacturers, it's basically 0 for Itanium.

I suspect it's only a question of time before Intel decides to give up 
on the Itanium. There is no advantage to be found in using Itanium over 
x86. Only locked customers running things like VMS or similar stuff that 
have no choice but Itanium have a real reason for buying that CPU.

All that said, I actually have no idea which of Itanium and Sparc sells 
the most. Maybe someone else can actually dig up those numbers, if it 
really is important.

	Johnny