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| Authored by: cassini2006 on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT |
Oracle killed its Itanium support at roughly the same time as everyone else,
including Microsoft, RedHat and Canonical. Undoubtedly, Intel was giving the
same quiet message to all of its big customers.
HP knew that Itanium was a
dying platform since 2007. Considering that it is an enterprise platform, it
will take at least 10 years for some of its customers to switch from Itanium
hardware. HP should have announced a switch over program 6 years ago, and they
didn't.
I expect better from a company operating in the enterprise space,
where the planning time frames are very long. If I'm paying a million dollars
for a computer, I want to know support exists 10 years out. HP would rather lie
and take my money, than to publicise and implement a legitimate transition
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 07:29 AM EDT |
They now have their OWN HARDWARE to sell... why promote
another's hardware?
One word: Larry
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 08:17 PM EDT |
Around the time of the Windows 2003 and XP x64 release
(same code, different
license key and bundled apps), they
suddenly dropped all support for the
Itanium 64 bit XP, with
no replacement workstation offering for that hardware.
Not
even security updates were provided after that. (The server
versions
still lives, at least I think Windows 2008 Server
supports it).
Around
the same time, I was receiving "64 bit training"
at a Microsoft location,
working and testing sample code on
both x64 and Itanium hardware, with an Intel
representative
among the instructors. I managed to get MSs Itanium
compiler,
running on Itanium to run for hours trying to
optimize a large function that
had about 18 64 bit variables
that were all good candidates to be kept in
registers. Had
to hit Ctrl+C to kill it at the end of that day.
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