Can you give me exact references, links ? I meant non-ia64 in the domain of server CPU architectures aiming critical business, but I will check to what my source was exactly referring to. Anyway, I am not good with that kind of figures and price wars (http://www.techuser.net/itanic.html), and I am not talking about the EPIC power requirements which are lower than X86 - I am saying CISC is still new with high-end critical business market (RISC vs. EPIC, CISC is only about to challenge that part of the market, it is more about large banks, stock exchange, government bits, etc), and though Itanium is late for past 10 years with slow but big pace, it will probably take another 10 years to reach it's final verdict. Itanium is here to stay for a long while (it is not that same story as with iAPX 432 at the time), and it is not all about price and performance. I believe and I know there are better PCs than those based on Windows and x86, and I would like to think about servers just the same. I guess I can shortly depict that with:
http://www.idg.com/www/pr.nsf/0/C0DAA9494B23F50985257682005C593D "EPIC servers experienced a resurgence quarter on quarter, up by a strong 19.7% to $300 million, and nearly on a par with CISC revenue now" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium "For the combined POWER/SPARC/Itanium systems market, IDC reports that POWER captured 42% and SPARC captured 32%, while Itanium-based system revenue reached 26% in the second quarter of 2008" Anyway, I was more trying to emphasize the future of the open source with a grim blue shade than to talk about these figures ... ZP. 2010/2/16 Jussi Silvennoinen <[email protected]> > 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. > > -- > > Jussi > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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