"Itanium however, is completely based on the future. It has no real history. Only 2-3 processor releases, and all the big server sellers are getting behind it. And if you were to judge Itanium by Intel's history, you know that when Intel pushes something, it happens. I know they too have had failures, but seeing the big server oems get behind this should be a good clue to where this is going. Alpha engineers were acquired in 2001. Merger took place a year later. Not sure if Intel knew about the merger when they were making the deal. I think they were just trying to buy Alpha IP, but I could be wrong about that.
Intel pushed Rambus in a huge way and was flatly rejected by most consumers as being too expensive at the time. This lead to AMD picking up a few crucial market share points as i recall from history. So much for Intel's strong arming there. Itanium's history is what, 10 years or so at this point? Over 10 billion dollars invested in R&D. It is the love child of Intel desperately wanting a big chunk of the big iron market and HPQ's dying PA-RISC. As it stands right now Intel has almost ZERO market share of the big iron market, that is still ruled by SGI, IBM and SUN. Yes, lets discuss why Intel was buying Alpha IP shall we? Could it have anything to do with them blatently ripping off DEC Alpha tech and getting caught and rather than facing an incredible lawsuit they decided it would be much more cost effective to just buy the company?
You like to clamor about how Itanium adoption is a given for all of these leaders of big iron technology. Lets look a little closer as to why this is. SGI is on the ropes and arm chair quarter backs such as myself wonder how much longer they will be withering on the vine before they are bought out or file for Chapter 11 protection. MIPS for high end computing is quickly becoming passe and has been that way for years. The only reason SGI can still use the chip is because of their NUMA architecture and they leverage massive amounts of cpus to work in tandem with one another.
HPQ as already mentioned is in the love nest with Chipzilla. Some consider the Itanium to be the greatest quo ever pulled off in corporate history. Basically Intel has footed a 10 billion dollar bill for HPQ to redesign a brand new architecture that no one really knows or is comfortable with from a software writing point of view. Adoption at this point in time has been abysmal at best. It certainly doesn't help the Intel cause when a bug is discovered with this supposed "enterprise" level chip and the only solution to it is to scale back significantly on its clock speed so that it doesn't rear is ugly head."
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Here is someone elses great explanation for why Itanium/Intel suck...
"Itanium however, is completely based on the future. It has no real history. Only 2-3 processor releases, and all the big server sellers are getting behind it. And if you were to judge Itanium by Intel's history, you know that when Intel pushes something, it happens. I know they too have had failures, but seeing the big server oems get behind this should be a good clue to where this is going. Alpha engineers were acquired in 2001. Merger took place a year later. Not sure if Intel knew about the merger when they were making the deal. I think they were just trying to buy Alpha IP, but I could be wrong about that.
Intel pushed Rambus in a huge way and was flatly rejected by most consumers as being too expensive at the time. This lead to AMD picking up a few crucial market share points as i recall from history. So much for Intel's strong arming there. Itanium's history is what, 10 years or so at this point? Over 10 billion dollars invested in R&D. It is the love child of Intel desperately wanting a big chunk of the big iron market and HPQ's dying PA-RISC. As it stands right now Intel has almost ZERO market share of the big iron market, that is still ruled by SGI, IBM and SUN. Yes, lets discuss why Intel was buying Alpha IP shall we? Could it have anything to do with them blatently ripping off DEC Alpha tech and getting caught and rather than facing an incredible lawsuit they decided it would be much more cost effective to just buy the company?
You like to clamor about how Itanium adoption is a given for all of these leaders of big iron technology. Lets look a little closer as to why this is. SGI is on the ropes and arm chair quarter backs such as myself wonder how much longer they will be withering on the vine before they are bought out or file for Chapter 11 protection. MIPS for high end computing is quickly becoming passe and has been that way for years. The only reason SGI can still use the chip is because of their NUMA architecture and they leverage massive amounts of cpus to work in tandem with one another.
HPQ as already mentioned is in the love nest with Chipzilla. Some consider the Itanium to be the greatest quo ever pulled off in corporate history. Basically Intel has footed a 10 billion dollar bill for HPQ to redesign a brand new architecture that no one really knows or is comfortable with from a software writing point of view. Adoption at this point in time has been abysmal at best. It certainly doesn't help the Intel cause when a bug is discovered with this supposed "enterprise" level chip and the only solution to it is to scale back significantly on its clock speed so that it doesn't rear is ugly head."
"OpenBSD has a local root hole."
It does it really now? Got anything to backup your off the wall comments?
OpenBSD claims "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!"
That means your comments about local root holes are bullshit. Unless of course your putting them there; in which case you're the dope.