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Chipguy, Maybe you think IDC and Gartner are lying about x86 and IPF sales or their respective growth rates too? Go stick your head back in the sand.

You know much better than most how exactly HOW wrong IDC and Gartner have been for as far as Itanium growth projections have gone. There hasn't been a single multi year projection that was even remotely low enough for IPF. This amounts to pretending your head is in the sand while it isn't.

Re: That is part of the story but is far from complete. HP's total HP-UX sales are steady while PA-RISC sales shrink but HP-UX represents less than half of IPF sales. Do the math genius.

I wasn't talking about HP but all of Itanium sales, again as you well know. As for your smart ass remarks, they aren't.

Re: x86 holds less than 10% of all servers costing more than $10k and less than 5% of all servers costing more than $25k. Try to rise above your PC myopia.

% of x86 servers costing more than $10K/$25K isn't declining which invalidates your point that Itanium is eating into high end x86 servers. Not in any pragmatic sense.

Lastly you apparently can't refute my main point which is that Itanium hasn't slowed the x86 server growth curve, something I pretty much am sure you said would have happened years ago.

Regards,

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