[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/9/2012 4:09 PM, Keith Parris wrote:
> On 5/9/2012 12:14 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Everyone knows IA64 is dead, but HP denies it
>
> What we know for certain at this point is that Intel has committed to
> multiple generations of Itanium, including Poulson, Kittson, and
> something called Kittson+. Itanium is no more dead at this point than
> are SPARC or POWER (and maybe less dead than SPARC, were the truth to be
> known); either of those chips' makers could decide to pull the plug at
> any point.

Itanium sales are not good.

And the software vendors are dropping the platform.

It will live for some years.

But the direction seems very much downwards.

I agree about SPARC. Some day in the not so far out future Larry
will look at the cost and decide to ditch SPARC and Solaris
for x86-64 and Linux.

Arne