Any bets as to how much longer before Intel finally sticks a fork in
the thing? I have to wonder how long even HP is going to hold on to
this dream. I found a bit of an interesting little quote about HP and
Itanium in a recent news article:
"Itanium hasn't yet reached heir-apparent status by most estimates.
HP--the server maker that has pushed the chip most aggressively--sold
$287 million in Itanium-based Unix servers in the second quarter of
2005, compared with $778 million in the PA-RISC-based Unix servers
they're intended to replace, according to Gartner figures."
Kinda sad when an architecture that has seen virtually zero
development in 10 years is still outselling the supposed latest and
greatest by nearly 3:1.
In my line of work, I get to see and compare what other people are
buying. I have not yet seen one group using HP-UX on anything other
than PA-RISC yet. I know for a fact that a lot of people are waiting
to see somebody (else) use HP-UX on Itanium, so that they could go over
to their place and check it out.