-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yep, positive. The purpose of the road show was to pitch Oracle on HPUX and Itanium as well as RHAS and Oracle on Itanium. The conversation then turned to Red Hat Professional Workstation also being released for Itanium and only being available from the hardware vendors for their approved hardware, and that it would only be supported on the approved hardware, which was all Itanium2. But, I agree with you, and strongly feel that HP is shooting themselves in both feet by killing the Alpha and the PA-RISC processors. I work in a shop of enterprise class machines all running Tru64 on Alphas. There is no way under the sun that we are EVER going to put Itaniums on the floor in place of the Alphas. 1. The technology is way too new. It may be the fastest and greatest processor ever imagined but it hasn't been put through it's paces to meet our satisfaction. Maybe in 5 years it will have been tested enough to be trusted, but I'm afraid that they'll run out of money before then. 2. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that Intel will never be able to compete in the Enterprise class UNIX world. There has been too many hard feeling created by Intel and their cronies through the years that many Systems Engineers would rather crawl to IBM or Sun than put an Itanium on their raised floor. But I did get a kick out of one of the HP guys pitching the Itanium and saying that HP and Intel are big enough to "force standards" on the technology market. He didn't find it too polite that I almost fell out of my chair laughing....
On 3/10/03 12:50 PM, "Jesse Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2003 09:34, Chris Ford wrote: >> Professional Workstation or Enterprise workstation is going to be built for >> the Itanium architecture workstations. > > *blink* are you sure? Thats not the info I'm getting. The info I'm getting > is that almost nothing will be built for IA64, due to a huge market gap and > no real value to producing such a beastly OS. - -- Chris Ford - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #249638 GPG Key - http://raef.dyndns.org/pub-key "In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+bO05b8ExRrP/s1sRAvLsAJwLJq7tRdwFsOlRPKTzNVV5+gPYLQCgmrxQ gjPHpezAZmVCtk1oWeWpRcM= =cG8C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
