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Oracle drops Itanium after Intel 'focuses on x86 chips'
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Oracle is the latest software firm to dump support for Intel's Itanium architecture.
Following conversations with Chipzilla's senior management, Oracle took the decision to stop writing software for the Itanic. Reuters reports that Intel management told Oracle that its "strategic focus was on x86 processors".
Such a statement by Intel should put paid to speculation that it still sees Itanium as its big hope for enterprise servers. Oracle's decision follows similar ones made by Microsoft and Red Hat, with both firms removing support for the architecture in future products.
While Oracle will stop writing software for the Itanic, the outfit confirmed that it will continue to support customers that already run workloads on Itanium servers.
The decision to walk away from Itanium and refocus its efforts on X86 must have been painful for Intel, as the firm spent huge sums of cash trying to make Itanium successful. However, despite Intel's deep relationships with many server vendors, it failed to make Itanium take off, with many server OEMs dropping the chip in favour of Intel's own x86 based Xeon chip.
The final bell for Itanium rang when enterprise software firms decided to stop supporting the architecture. After all, what's the point of making a buying decision that lasts for a decade if there won't be software support?
And with software houses having dropped support, it seems that even Intel has decided to move on. µ
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LIKE IF YOU COULD GET DUKE NUKEM TO RUN ON IT OR ANOTHER GAME LIKE CRYSIS, THAT WOULD BE PRETTY GOOD. EXCEPT THAT ITANIUM WAS EXPENSIVE COMPARED TO PENTIUM.
PLUS, HELLO GUYS, YOU SPELL IT "TITANIUM". ITS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE AND EVERYTHING. I DONT KNOW HOW THEY GOT THAT ONE WRONG, YOUD THINK THEY WOULD HAVE PEOPLE TO CHECK INTO THAT. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SOME ID10T GETTING HIS WAY NAMING STUFF WHATEVER HE WANTS, EVEN IF HE MAKES A MISTAKE.
LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, HELLO GUYS IT IS SPELLED "EYE PHONE". THAT ONE IS TOTALLY INEXCUSABLE!
JOBS IS A TOTAL MORON. DOES HE WORK FOR INTEL? NOW I'M NOT SURE.
Will they only discontinue Linux Itanium support, or HP-UX too?
“Intel’s official statement “Intel Reaffirms Commitment to Itanium” can be found in its online newsroom here: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/23/chip-shot-intel-reaffirms-commitment-to-itanium.”
Told you Paul! LOL!
@W.- this depends. If they just sack the people that worked on it then yes. But if they refocus them onto making something else better probably not. Its like if Oracle bought Sun... O wait.
They just close down the competing competition products. but in this case its just a company consolidating. My company moved away from Itanium before I even joined as they predicted this would happen far sooner!
There is still room for DVDs in the era of BluRay; x86 and Arm are (for now) coexisting.
Similar products or tech can exist if they offer (or appear to offer) different value at different prices. The problem with Itanium is that it didn't out-perform x86 enough to justify a premium price for hardware and support.
Another example of capitalism's flaws.
"There is only room for one 'VHS'"