Weapons of Mass DistractionItanium Servers

HP announced that they are making Itanium 2 blade servers.  I am shocked that money is still being spent designing new IA64 systems. I thought they already had 1 foot out the door.  They cost a fortune, are loud, require a nuclear reactor to power, and aren't really that great other than for very specific uses.  Frankly I am surprised that Microsoft hasn't completely dropped support for them.

There's a joke going around that Microsoft has more than half of the Itaniums in the world on their campus, just for testing IA64 versions of Windows.  I actually wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to be true.

Just let it die.  Investing more money isn't going to save your enormous flop of an investment from tanking.


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