> The people that bought Itanium-powered servers certainly weren't replacing them every 18-24 months. I was referring to the software vendors: why would they g

> The people that bought Itanium-powered servers certainly weren't replacing them every 18-24 months. I was referring to the software vendors: why would they go through the effort of optimizing their code for this new architecture when they could simply wait a little while for the "old" one to get faster via Moore's Law?