They get the credit for Intel's work. It will not happen that way on future software ports.
I think it's worth considering what will happen on future software ports. It seems clear that the difficult thing is porting to 64 bits, not porting to one specific architecture or another. That indicates to me that if there are significant differences between software availability then it won't be because of the difficulty or otherwise of porting, but rather because of the expected return.
Since AMD64 hardware volumes are likely to be much larger than IA64 hardware volumes that would mean that the only software that would be preferentially available for IA64 would be that that matches the buyer profile of IA64 hardware, in other words very high end, expensive software.
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