The very sad yet predictable end of Itanium. With products just left with HP, they try to convince Oracle that the need to keep producing their database on the platform...
You can hardly blame Oracle on this one, there must be no profitability in releasing this product on their platform.
At the time of creation you could not have forseen the multi core and 64 bit potential of the x86 line, and this has largely caused Itanium to be a flop. Had that not being the case then there may have been more customers willing to take the pain of an architecture changeover. AMD of course came up with x86-64 - had they not I would not be so sure the Intel would have been keen to extend the life of the processor in the server space given their second product.
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