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Spokeshave -

However, none of the above examples typifies the introduction of Itanium. Itanium was a new product for a *huge* existing market, but the product had a catch. It would not run any existing software well. Intel did not sell many Itaniums in the last year and a half because there has been very little industry acceptance to date.

Well you're exactly right. It did pretty bad. How can anyone spin it any other way? Itanium2 may do much better. It's not possible to do much worse.

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