Comments on: The death of Itanium? http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/12/18/the-death-of-itanium/ Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Naresh http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/12/18/the-death-of-itanium/comment-page-1/#comment-116560 Naresh Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:07:13 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1161#comment-116560 Thanks for your response Tim. Thanks for your response Tim.

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/12/18/the-death-of-itanium/comment-page-1/#comment-116047 Tim... Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:17:18 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1161#comment-116047 Hi. The price/performance ratio has always been terrible compared to the regular chips. Yes they worked faster, but at what cost? Even back in the bad old Xeon days, I would have picked Xeons over Itanium if I could. I've spoken to some insiders at a well known vendor, who were the main proponents of Itanium, and they said it sucked, but it suited their business model. I'm sure lots of lessons were learned from it as a technology, but IA-64 never took off and now the latest batch of X86-64 processors blow them out of the water, so the end is nigh... :) Cheers Tim... Hi.

The price/performance ratio has always been terrible compared to the regular chips. Yes they worked faster, but at what cost? Even back in the bad old Xeon days, I would have picked Xeons over Itanium if I could.

I’ve spoken to some insiders at a well known vendor, who were the main proponents of Itanium, and they said it sucked, but it suited their business model.

I’m sure lots of lessons were learned from it as a technology, but IA-64 never took off and now the latest batch of X86-64 processors blow them out of the water, so the end is nigh… :)

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Naresh http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/12/18/the-death-of-itanium/comment-page-1/#comment-116025 Naresh Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:35:06 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1161#comment-116025 Why do you say Itanium is not a good idea? I have no particular opinion about Itanium - just curious why you say so. I hope the answer is simple enough to repsond to a comment :). Thanks, Naresh Why do you say Itanium is not a good idea? I have no particular opinion about Itanium – just curious why you say so. I hope the answer is simple enough to repsond to a comment :) .

Thanks,
Naresh

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