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IBM to Drop Itanium

Posted by Zonk on from the xeon-chips-have-the-power dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Xbitlabs is reporting that IBM chose not to persue Itanium in their next generation server lineup because of the "market acceptance issues" of the platform. They will still continue with new revisions of Xeon servers, however. With IBM's investments in Power, I can't help but think the writing was already on the wall. The article also hints that IBM might start using Power in their high end server products."

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  1. Re:From the summary: hogwash by kurt555gs · · Score: 0, Troll

    1st. unlike machinery or chemicals software costs almost nothing to reproduce.

    If you want to license you software under a comercial license and it is really really good, and you price is reasonable, then people will BUY it, just like anything else in this whole world.

    If you want to gouge people, then you can hardly blame them for using it and not paying you.

    Remember, because it costs almost nothing to make, softwares REAL value diminishes with every copy made, paid for or not.

    rant off

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