Comments on: HP's chief exec dismisses any 'me too' attitude

CEO Mark Hurd says his company will focus more closely on three areas: servers, storage and management software.

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Why does Mr Hurd feel the necessity to give his personal "commitment for support" for Itanium? Isn't that a given at a top tier supplier? Why can't Intel give their own statement of support? Why didn't Intel even mention Itanium at this years Intel Developer Forum? Does Mr Hurd give his personal commitment to support HP-UX? What about Tru64?

HP's scalable enterprise business is going to fall drasticly within 3 years. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... We're done with HP's empty promises.

Itanium is an inherently inferior archicture to Power, Sparc, and most especially PA-RISC. Itanium's giant caches work on benchmarks but not in the real world. Intel and HP are 3 to 5 years behind IBM and Sun.

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I think you hit that on the head. HP's promise with integrity was to be able to run all of your OSes on the same box and dynamically reasign resourses depending on load peaks, but who would want to do that when windows, hp-ux, vax, linux are not native to itanic and do not enjoy the same development, opteron does 32/64bit x86/x64, vmware can do the virtualization, and AMD based hardware is a fraction of the cost of integrity. I would rather just do what I have been doing. When Sun comes out with a 16 way (8 dual core) galaxy with vmware esx support, I don't know why anyone will even want to consider integrity. HP should also open Tru64 since they have no intrest in continuing development or support. HP actually has one TRU64 migration path that has you go from ALPHA/TRU64 to PA-RISC/HP-UX to eventually ITANIC/HP-UX because of customer application dependancies, who would want to go through that hell.

caches

itanium has only 9 mb cache where ibm power5 has 36 mb and sparc4+ has 32mb cache.

Michael Dell was the CEO of Dell

Check out your facts before publishing story

"Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, is expected to speak Thursday at Gartner's conference."

Last I check couple of minutes he is the chairman

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/biographies/en/index?c=us&l=en&s=corp

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