Farewell Unobtanium / Itanic, er I mean Itanium?

[Sysman]

It is 10 years ago this summer that Compaq announced the EOL for DEC/Digital/Compaq's Alpha series in favour of Intel's Itanium. Is this Itanium's final death sentence?

From The Register: Ellison drops iceberg in front of HP's unsinkable Itanic

Oracle has announced that it has stopped development for all its software on Intel's high-end Itanium server processor.

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This may not be a big deal for all of the other server vendors that have abandoned the good ship Itanic - IBM, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, Fujitsu, NEC, Bull, and others - but this is a huge deal for Hewlett-Packard, which runs its flagship HP-UX Unix operating system on Itanium-based Integrity servers.

I believe that OpenVMS (what's left of it) and Tandem's NonStop also run on Itanium. And so much for the poor Tru64 customers who were promised a port to Itanium which never happened, but were promised "We will help you to move to HP-UX".

I wonder if HP saw this coming with their purchase of Palm.

[AtW]

Yeah, good riddance - cost billions of $$$ and all that was from sales of x86 and later x64 - frankly the whole project was a disaster - can't believe it took so long to admit it failed, some real high ups must have been involved.

Give us more cores of x64 - cheap!

[Sysman]

Yeah, good riddance - cost billions of $$$ and all that was from sales of x86 and later x64 - frankly the whole project was a disaster - can't believe it took so long to admit it failed, some real high ups must have been involved.

Give us more cores of x64 - cheap!

I understand that it was so highly touted before it was reality that other manufacturers were waiting for it rather than continue development with their own solutions. If I remember correctly the Itanium was going to be Intel's 64 bit solution and it was AMD who brought us x64.

[Sysman]

I understand that it was so highly touted before it was reality that other manufacturers were waiting for it rather than continue development with their own solutions. If I remember correctly the Itanium was going to be Intel's 64 bit solution and it was AMD who brought us x64.

Tee hee:

Itanium Sales Forecasts over the years