Saturday, March 26, 2011

Intel claims that Itanium is healthy - HP also

Intel has denied claims that Oracle explained yesterday (see "Death of Itanium is near") that the foundry would stop the Itanium. It recalled its roadmap and promised that we would know more next IDF. The press release we received contained about Paul Otellini himself who took the pen to remember that the chips already announced, namely, Poulson and Kittson (see "8 cores in an Itanium) are being developed and their output is a certainty.

This leads us to approximately 2013. It is silent on what happens after, but says we will know more at the next IDF to be held in Beijing in a few days. It is easy to jump to conclusions, because the answer to Intel is ambiguous. The company says it will continue to go out of platforms HP-UX, but even the Palo Alto PD G no longer talking about Itanium.

Worse, Intel "reaffirms its commitment to Itanium" (the title of the press release we received, Ed), but he removed himself managing the Itanium in its own C / C + + and Fortran early year. Ultimately, it is important to step back. There will be two more generations of Itanium, which will take over and Intel will provide greater accuracy in the IDF.

After all, the ambiguity of the post-release Kittson is normal. The IDF would have no reason to be if Intel just unveiled the first rumor of a competitor, because we must remember that Oracle will also sell the SPARC (see "Oracle and MySQL talking about Sparc") . Update: HP has also commented about his competitor and has reaffirmed its commitment to Itanium.

HP has provided the development of the Itanium-based servers and its HP-UX on a roadmap that spans over 10 years. Oracle accuses HP of practice disinformation in order to win back customers. According to Oracle HP saw its market share in Unix servers eroded since its acquisition by Sun.

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