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

[JF Mezei]

Keith Parris wrote:

> Not so much anymore. Itanium had a slow start, but Itanium server sales 
> surpassed SPARC several years ago.

And the 80386 sales surpassed Alpha sales by orders of magnitudes but
Intel was ready to ditch it because it thought it was a technological
dead end.

When you have large volumes, you can afford to make the 8086 pig fly,
and Intel has done a tremendous job of it.

But for IA64, the volumes aren't there to turn this heavy white elephant
into a flying condor.

Intel gets money from HP to continue to do the IA64 thing. As long as HP
 pays, Intel will do the work. DoN,t think for a minute that should HP
decide to move to the 8086, that Intel would continue to develop IA64.

Remains to be seen what the new guy at HP will do. Hurd clearly told
Oracle that IA64 was vulnerable.