Re: Do you know the real reason Itanium failed?
"A lot of software on Digital/HP platforms continued to only run on those platforms or Itanium up until at least 2012 (hopefully they have an x86 migration path now...). "
It is interesting that, in 2009, I was laid off from HP working on a linux port of one of their cash cow products (Serviceguard). When the recession hit, HP killed off ALL non cash cow (Itanium) products that were not profitable in our section, only to restart those projects 2 and 3 years later. They screwed up. They doubled down on Itanium at the exact time that the rest of the world was giving Itanium the finger, and fired a whole pile of Linux developers. You start to see how this lines up with this story? THE RECESSION occurred right in the middle of the Itanium push, making it LESS likely that anybody was ever going to recompile for Itanium, or move to a more expensive , locked in HP-UX environment. They killed off their distant future OPPORTUNITY to move ahead in order to save their immediate cash cows, and those cash cows' days have declined significantly and are now numbered. And lets not forget that MARK HURD oversaw this. He killed the future to make quarterly numbers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
