Saturday, March 26, 2011

Oracle ending support on Itanium

An interesting move by Oracle, preumably to make to their hardware offering to look more attractive and to muscle HP-UX out of the market (although I always feel it has not long to live!)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/oracle_hp_ux_itanium_analysis/

Focusing on x86 is also interesting, Itanium has always felt like an expensive operation - and maybe is was only going to find niche markets. Will a clean design processor's time ever come to relieve us of all the x86 baggage.

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