Itanium: A cautionary tale

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Yes they did.

Hardware without software is useless.

Potential customers for the Itanium have a huge software investment in their existing servers. The enterprise applications that run on those servers often cost more than the server that they run on. Backwards compatibility provides two important things, the ability to use existing x86 software that a customer has already invested in and a larger base of available applications. Any major organization interested in the Itanium server market already has servers running x86 software. Not being able to use their existing software raises the cost of the Itanium software to include all of the applications that they need to run their business, that makes the Itanium cost prohibitive in all cases except when the server is being used for a special purpose.

Intel did the correct thing in providing backward compatibility, they just did a poor job of it.

HP won't be kinda happy, they will be unhappy but will settle for it.

GCC? Nearly every comercial compiler on the market produces superior code to GCC. GCC is okay when you are writing open source applications when you don't expect any revenue or when you need to support so many processors where the support requirements for multiple processors exceed the gain from tighter code. However, the GCC one size fits all approach produces a inferior compiler; exactly NOT what you are claiming the Itanium and Intel needs.

Posted by: balsover   Posted on: 12/09/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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