"Alan D Johnson" <adjtech@usadatanet.net> wrote in message news
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> Benjamin Gawert wrote:
> > Alan D Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> one of the guys I work with said he saw that too, but I have not seen
> >> anything to substantiate it, I believe it is talking about the Windoze
> >> "workstations" not HP-UX workstations.
> >
> >
> > No, it definitely is the Itanium workstation series that's cancelled.
> >
> > The Windows workstations bring a lot of renevue, there is no reason why
> > HP should axe something that brings them a lot of money and is very
> > successful.
Uh, the itanium workstations were intended to run Windoze, Linux, and HP-UX.
Sales of all three combined have been insignificant. They've all been killed, replaced
by EM64T technology workstations that run Linux and Windoze.
In reality, the whole itanium program was effectively killed back in February, when HP
announced servers based on EM64T chips. They just haven't given it a decent burial yet:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02...r_cheerleader/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02...o_sank_itanic/
> >
> > Benjamin
> Y'all say that it's true, but I have yet to find an HP link that says it
> is so, anyone have the OFFICIAL answer?!? It makes a BIG difference...
The lack of itanium workstations on the web site might be the best clue for now.
Would be nice to have an official press release on the subject, but that apparently
is asking too much from the people who currently run the company.
-Dave