Oracle will disc.. Itanium

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
> 64 bit era is over?
> F

Itanium began being irrelevant when AMD came up with the AMD64
architecture. Then Intel admited defeat when it embraced it, labelling
it EM64T.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1561875,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/08/xeon_amd64_fix/

At Unisys, Itanium chip is dead
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10167332-64.html

The Intel Itanium is tottering towards death, analyst reckons
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44828-the-intel-itanium-is-tottering-towards-death-analyst-reckons

So, overall your concern is 6 years old... AMD64-EM64T beat IA64 years ago.

FC