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The layoffs here are in their enterprise division, where I don't think quality is the main problem. Two problems instead: the market is generally moving away fr
by mjn 11y ago
The layoffs here are in their enterprise division, where I don't think quality is the main problem. Two problems instead: the market is generally moving away from high-end enterprise servers towards commodity x86 servers, and, possibly worse, they bet on Itanium as their flagship non-x86 architecture, succeeding PA-RISC. Even when you remove x86 from the picture and just stack it up against competitors like Oracle SPARC and IBM POWER8, HP's Itanium-based Integrity line is not doing well. To be fair, a lot of smart people at Intel bet big on Itanium too, so this wasn't simply a case of bad HP management.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoMany of us thought it was good for the security market. Fast, reliable, cleaner than x86, and features that boosted security. Market just went with x86. I wonder if that would've been the case even without Itanium's weird VLIW features. If so, should never try something like that again in that market. If not, then maybe a new RISC processor might work. I vote they bring back their i960 in multi-core or team up on SPARC designs given it's open.