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The Problem With Itanium . . .
was that everyone kind of expected it to be the 64 bit motherload that the Xeon was to x386. Well, that hasn't materialized and with good reason. Sure 5,000 apps is a good start, but until M$ and the Linux community truly start porting their OS's and stack of apps over as optimized for Itanium, then it's all pie in the sky. With the excpetion of the nitch markets where IBM customers are buying modest numbers of p Series servers to run DBs, 64 bit computing is still a nascient market. Christ! M$ shipped XP x64 without 64 but compiled Windows Media Player and Encoder. These are the two apps, less IE, consumers would upgrade to x64 XP now rather than waiting. That's flying well under the radar. In the end, x64 will drive the adoption to 64 bit computing. Then only when critical mass is nearing will Itanium have the necessary 64 bit ground swell to become relavent, fulfilling its original promise of becoming a commodity processor. That's my two cents.
Posted by: jjworleyeoe   Posted on: 08/30/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The Problem With Itanium . . .  jjworleyeoe | 08/30/05
HP PA-RISC still shipping  dwjunix | 08/30/05
Yes, think Open Solaris on AMD x86-64  DonnieBoy | 08/31/05
Opteron beats Itanium by 250%  sharikou | 08/30/05
Truly unbeatable !  Prognosticator | 08/31/05
Unbiased link  Roger Ramjet | 08/31/05
Ok, show a different link  balsover | 08/31/05
What you don't know . . .  Roger Ramjet | 08/31/05
What you don't know about people  dwjunix | 08/31/05
Is almost as bad as folk knowledge  oldsysprog | 08/31/05
No flawed assumptions...  Prognosticator | 08/31/05
Yes compilers are hard, and the Itanium puts all the work on the compiler  oldsysprog | 08/31/05
Correct..as it should  Prognosticator | 08/31/05
You did not read my post  oldsysprog | 08/31/05
Thanks, I understand your post.  Prognosticator | 09/01/05
Yes, and x86-64 is still a whole lot cheaper, ask Google.  DonnieBoy | 08/31/05
Too Little, Too Late.  SimonSays | 08/31/05
The problem is, x86-64 is better and cheaper.  DonnieBoy | 08/31/05
Not necessarily for the reason stated  balsover | 08/31/05
Well, MIPS per dollar or MIPS per watt is what determines best.  DonnieBoy | 09/01/05
Another example of intel's...  wizzzer | 08/31/05
Itanium had failures on several fronts.  tyezek | 08/31/05
Some Misconceptions  Roger Ramjet | 09/01/05

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