The only thing that saddens me about the coming demise of Itanic is that we'll never find out how much money Intel sank into that hole. Itanic did, however, serve its initial purpose in poisoning the futures of all the 64-bit RISC architectures that Intel didn't own.

This thing needed a bullet in the head a long time ago. Intel should have simply created an enterprise-class (i.e. RAS features) 64-bit Xeon earlier.

I still wouldn't be surprised if Intel kept flushing money down the toilet to keep the IA64 zombie alive for several more years.

To do otherwise is to admit defeat to AMD64. And admitting defeat to a much smaller competitor would be a real nasty tasting piece of humble pie.

at the end of this article there was a google advertisement that said:
Intel Itanium 2
Server processors. Check out Intel's roadmap!

As I kept telling Paul Demone, its a dead platform. Yah, yah, just wait for the next version, I know Paul. LOL!

What about Wintel?
Intel and Microsoft should fight together against AMD and linux.

The Inquirer has always referred to the Itanium as the Itanic. It ceased support for other Itanium names years ago, far ahead of Microsoft AND Red Hat.

Since when ? Since shortly after its announcement. In other words, they nearly always refer to it that way here. Do some searches here for Itanium and you will see.

"The Itanic, as we call it,..." Since when did the Inq dumb it down like that? What next, will you stop using the word Vole because it confuses people?

life goes on I guess :-)