On 16 February 2010 13:19, Jussi Silvennoinen <[email protected]>wrote:
> even more convinced that something wrong is going on. I can understand that >> market share is important, but different vendors (including SAP) obviously >> have different perspectives (Intel has more or less equal income from ia64 >> and non-ia64, so it is here to stay !!!), and I won't tell now how it >> actually looks like to me ... I think that HP lost good competitors, but >> > > Intel just recently announced that Itanium sales 2001-2010 were around 5 > billion USD. > > Comparing that to just FY 2009 Intel revenue (35 billion USD) I'd say that > ia64 is far from being "equal income". > > There just isn't any money to be made from Itanium. That's true. And quite apart from anything else the likes of SAP and others who support Itanium will only do so for as long as they are contractually obliged to do so and for as long as there is money to be made. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if SAP (and others) were supporting Itanium simply because there are customers who are prepared to pay enough for it. Offer Red Hat $1M per annum for Itanium support and see if they'll say "yes" :-) jch
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