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Dan, you really do have to stop slinging the same FUD. IBM did halt shipments of their Itanium 2 solution, but after Intel dealt with the bug, they put the webpage back on their site.

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries/x450.html

It was only down for about a week.

As for Dell, you continually post old news on their decommitment, rather than mentioning their renewed interest.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107265,00.asp

"Yes, we do now have an Itanium 2-based PowerEdge server on our roadmap," said Bruce Anderson, a Dell spokesperson. "It's not a matter of if but when. Customer demand up to this point has not been broad, but we have seen renewed interest in the last six months on high performance clusters for this type of product."

Renewed interest in the last six months - this coincides with the launch of McKinley.

And here is a more recent article.

http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1361/030425dellitanium/page_1.html

Dell Computer Corp. publicly demonstrated an Itanium 2 server for the first time at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server 2003 launch event in San Francisco Thursday, and said it will release such a system later this year.