Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
I'm purely speculating, of course!
Of course you are, like most people do. I always have to fight against this misconception that Itanium as a whole is some sort of failure. Far from it my friend. You, for example, are probably interacting with an Itanium server every day without even knowing it. You know, a big part of telecommunications servers are Itanium based, so when you make a call on your mobile phone there's a very big chance that it's routed through an Itanium system. Or when you get money out of an ATM, there's a chance that the main server of that bank is Itanium based. Even now when you posted this message, chances are that a node somewhere was Itanium. I configure and help sell servers every day and I can tell you that, yes x86 sells more but the Itanium architecture is far far from being a failure and sells on a constant basis.