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| Authored by: symbolset on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:35 PM EDT |
It's hard to pick a side on this one. Some customers really, really want
Itanium features. Intel is migrating many of these features to Xeon over time.
Oracle doesn't want to encourage people to buy long-life platforms that are
going away, but they entered into a contract and a deal's a deal.
I'm going
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| Authored by: jjs on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
Back in the day of DEC, HP, Sun, and IBM, minicomputer makers
understood the idea that some folks wanted to run the same
program for 20 years because it worked. It started to go
downhill when Compaq bought DEC - and the DEC support disappeared. Then HP
bought Compaq, and Compaq's PC
philosophy spilled over into HP (killing the HP MPE OS and HP
3000, never mind HP/UX and the HP/9000). Sun has been bought
by Oracle. Only IBM is left who remembers what service is.
IMHO.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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