[Info-vax] HP Users Hope Whitman Can Persuade Oracle to Change Itanium Decision

[MG]

On 2-10-2011 20:27, JF Mezei wrote:
> So, why are there no x86 "mainframes" ?
>
> - because there insufficient demand for more than 64 cores ?
>
> - because companies like HP and IBM made a niche for IA64/Power and
> don't want X86 to compete in that niche ?
>
> - or because x86 truly has technical limitations that prevent its
> scaling to large systems ?

Well, what do you think?

  - MG