Comments on: Oracle to expand Itanium support

Software giant plans to release E-Business Suite for HP Unix on Itanium by the end of 2006.

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HP are in deep dog doo

So Oracle will have complete support for Itanic in 9 more months... In other words it's vaporware bordering on FUD. HP's lack of a coherent strategy is amazing and terrible. With a track record like HP's, i.e. cancelling Alpha upgradges, bastardizing HP-UX, not providing equivalent HP-UX functionality with PA-RISC out of the gate, etc.. the future is looking very grim.

Plus, analysts are looking at the Itanic roadmap and can see that performance-wise Power6 will utterly demolish it. Even in the unlikely case that Intel sticks to their roadmap IBM will be 2 generations ahead.

Plus, all Xeons now come with the Itanic premium. All the money sunk down the Itanic sinkhole comes from Xeon customers. Is this a tenable situation given that Intel is losing out to AMD in the x86 space? Not in the long run. If Itanic doesn't turn around quick Intel will not have a choice, they will have to EOL it. Whereby HP's enterprise business will look a lot like SGI's and Bull's. Pretty grim. But hey, HP will deserve what they get...

power6?

Money sunk down the Itanic sinkhole? Didn't HP *just* report record profit growth from their Itanium servers, Q1 to Q1?

Good point about about Power6 though. Who knows what that will bring to the market. Do you know of any Power6 performance figures? Or other details?