Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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KeithDust2000, about Glaskowsky's claims -

Glaskowsky said that it's become apparent to him that Intel has failed to prove the need for IA-64. He adds that it's unlikely that server customers will switch to the Itanium now either.

That totally ignores HP's position in the server market. HP will certainly lose customers because of their Itanium switch, IMO, but many will switch. Add up their PA-RISC and MIPs markets and you have the potential Itanium market.

and you wrote

Itanium is not the future of the server market, X86 is.

What about Power?

Me: I think the server market is more complex than these comments indicate. It isn't at all like the desktop where one architecture predominates because you need a common architecture for an increasingly job-mobile, user-oriented workforce. The server market aims different needs at well educated technical personnel who have their personal preferences and biases. That IS worker gets paid to spend 10+ hours every day really understanding the particulars of his company's server deployment, vs. the end user who has to get a job done and would do it with telepathy if he just knew how. (Meaning that it has to be a automatic for him as possible.)