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This is an excellent article. It deserves wide distribution. The story of the Itanic is worth bringing up. Itanium was the ill fated 64 bit Microsoft/Intel/HP joint project that went down like the Titanic owing to multicore multiprocessors from both Intel and AMD and back room deals involving special pricing that were documented in congressional testimony regarding Patricia Dunn's identity theft crimes.

In my opinion the desire to spy on board members and reporters using pretexting was to keep secrete the advantage HP would have had over its competitors if Itanium had been successful. Once the special pricing news was public, it was very unlikely that other OEMs were going to be interested in supporting Itanium. Those involved with the project at all three companies eventually left their firms. The mysterious disappearance of Gray's sailboat and Gray, a Microsoft database researcher, may be related. This kind of story can not be made up. It is just so interesting and explains so much.

Microsoft had prepared a special version of SQL Server that ran well on 64 bit Itanium even benchmarking better than offerings from competitors. See a list of competitors at

http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/sql.html

The potential of a home run product from Microsoft on 64 bit Itanium and a continued revenue stream from the sale of 64 bit versions of its products was high given the back room deals. Once a business went with Microsoft SQL Server on all 64 Itanium, all 64 flavors of all software would be desirable.

It was not just multi-processors and exposure of criminally minded business dealings that sunk Itanium like the Titanic. The iceberg causing destruction also included virtualization technology.

Virtualization freezes an Operating System Product and its loaded software in a state that may never be patched again because virtualization provides security and backup. Hence businesses need not be driven by software vendors to upgrade. It will be a hard sell for government agencies with penny pinching citizenry to justify say Microsoft Office 2007.

With Virtualization comes the need for 32 bit processors. As the author states 32/64 bit servers are common today because that is what is needed to run old with new.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 04/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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