On Monday 10 March 2003 11:53, Chris Ford wrote: > Yep, positive. The purpose of the road show was to pitch Oracle on HPUX > and Itanium as well as RHAS and Oracle on Itanium. The conversation then > turned to Red Hat Professional Workstation also being released for Itanium > and only being available from the hardware vendors for their approved > hardware, and that it would only be supported on the approved hardware, > which was all Itanium2. > But, I agree with you, and strongly feel that HP is shooting themselves in > both feet by killing the Alpha and the PA-RISC processors. I work in a > shop of enterprise class machines all running Tru64 on Alphas. There is no > way under the sun that we are EVER going to put Itaniums on the floor in > place of the Alphas. 1. The technology is way too new. It may be the > fastest and greatest processor ever imagined but it hasn't been put through > it's paces to meet our satisfaction. Maybe in 5 years it will have been > tested enough to be trusted, but I'm afraid that they'll run out of money > before then. 2. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that Intel will never > be able to compete in the Enterprise class UNIX world. There has been too > many hard feeling created by Intel and their cronies through the years that > many Systems Engineers would rather crawl to IBM or Sun than put an Itanium > on their raised floor. > But I did get a kick out of one of the HP guys pitching the Itanium and > saying that HP and Intel are big enough to "force standards" on the > technology market. He didn't find it too polite that I almost fell out of > my chair laughing....
Thats really just too sad. We tend to laugh quite a bit at ia64... the little (expensive) chip that couldn't do shit. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
