Oracle has announced that it would cease development of all its Itanium applications, thus ending the support for the Intel architecture. He explained that the smelter would have confessed to wanting to focus on its x86 and Itanium that came at the end of life. The press release is short and surprisingly direct.
Oracle says: He finally cites the examples of Microsoft and Red Hat have already stopped the development of software for Itanium, and the fact that the new PD G HP has not mentioned even once in his long architectural presentation that was on the future of the company. Oracle will be limited to providing engineering support of existing software, but continues its development activities.
It is true that Intel has suffered numerous delays that have occurred the last core. This announcement is nevertheless surprising, because it takes place one year after the release of Tukwila (see "Intel's Itanium Tukwila last book), his latest Itanium, and only a month after the presentation of Poulson's Itanium, which has 8 cores been the subject of a paper at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (see "8 cores in Itanium).
Intel does not seem to want to stop. It is true that Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last operating system from Redmond to be compatible with the instruction set IA-64. Microsoft has effectively chosen the same way that Red Hat (cf. "Microsoft did manage most of Intel's Itanium). Nevertheless, these decisions had only a small impact since the majority of systems incorporating the Itanium running on HP-UX, a Unix derivative developed by HP.
The fact that Leo Apotheker has omitted the Itanium during his presentation had not made much noise, but the release of Oracle throws a stone into the pond. We contacted Intel and await his reply. 
Oracle says: He finally cites the examples of Microsoft and Red Hat have already stopped the development of software for Itanium, and the fact that the new PD G HP has not mentioned even once in his long architectural presentation that was on the future of the company. Oracle will be limited to providing engineering support of existing software, but continues its development activities.
It is true that Intel has suffered numerous delays that have occurred the last core. This announcement is nevertheless surprising, because it takes place one year after the release of Tukwila (see "Intel's Itanium Tukwila last book), his latest Itanium, and only a month after the presentation of Poulson's Itanium, which has 8 cores been the subject of a paper at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (see "8 cores in Itanium).
Intel does not seem to want to stop. It is true that Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last operating system from Redmond to be compatible with the instruction set IA-64. Microsoft has effectively chosen the same way that Red Hat (cf. "Microsoft did manage most of Intel's Itanium). Nevertheless, these decisions had only a small impact since the majority of systems incorporating the Itanium running on HP-UX, a Unix derivative developed by HP.
The fact that Leo Apotheker has omitted the Itanium during his presentation had not made much noise, but the release of Oracle throws a stone into the pond. We contacted Intel and await his reply.
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