Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future

Itanium is logical choice for the future: Here the choices:
1. Power is now an embedded architecture and will soon be shut down by IBM's investment in CELL. At best, Power would be an only, proprietary architecture for the big iron.

2. Sparc? They are giving it away and still losing traction. It's proprietary SUN and will be eaten from the bottom by Intel's X86 architecture and from the top by Itanium.

There is no other architecture choice. This does not even factor in the business and startegic reasons for the host of Itanium vendors to NOT adopt IBM's or Sun's architecture.
As Intel says, mainframes are on LONG term replacement cycles. The fact that Itanium is ALWAYS the whipping boy of the competition, serves to validate that it is succeeding.; Posted by: Prognosticator Posted on: 03/24/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Shaikou is brain dead ShadeTree | 03/24/06

I think that michael_t | 03/24/06

I know you know better.... techboy_z | 03/24/06

Good point/clarification. Prognosticator | 03/24/06

The Itanic IS unsinkable! Roger Ramjet | 03/24/06

Now what Intel? michael_t | 03/24/06

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