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The iceberg that sunk the Itanic was the HP-Oracle-Intel deal. HP was the only one who could sell them and Oracle put restrictions on how they could be used.
by dogma1138 8y ago
The iceberg that sunk the Itanic was the HP-Oracle-Intel deal.
HP was the only one who could sell them and Oracle put restrictions on how they could be used.
Wheb you have an ultra niche product that also happens to require a lot of ground work which is utterly incompatible with everything else on the market you aren’t likely to succeed.
If anything given the handicap that Itanium was playing with it can be considered an astonishing success.
- slrz 8y agoHuh? Itaniums weren't available just from HP. At some point, basically everyone sold them, although HP is probably the only one left still selling systems based on it (Integrity/Superdome).
- dogma1138 8y agoOutside of “super-computers” all the other OEMs were limited to a low cpu/core count which made their offerings essentially mute.