Intel says Itaniums not suitable for enterprise

The gist of the story appears to be that the Langchao Group rolled out its own Itanium server two weeks ago, breaking the embargo.

The SP 3000 it released was advertised as being a suitable product with excellent capacity and functions, claims that Intel decided to deny.

Instead, according to the article, Intel said that the Itanium 2 was immature, and should only be used for academic research and not for enterprise systems.

As Eva G might exclaim: Sheesh! That's certainly a different message than the one we got from Intel earlier in the day.

In fact the guy who did the presentation took care to point out to us that the Itanium 2 was specifically aimed at enterprise and "big tin" users, and he ought to know, because he was wearing a reversible ID tag, with Dassault Systemes on one side and Intel on the other.

Surely this story can't be right, Intel?

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