I don't know where you are getting this 2000 number from but you could probably easily exceed that by counting the CPUs in the system sales announced on the newswires over the last month.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9467 perhaps. It's closer to 5000 than 2000, and it's circumstancial, bordering on apocryphal, I'll admit, but Intel lay themselves open to that sort of speculation when they don't announce their own figures. Those newswire sales would be part of the 2003 figure, I presume.
Arguing sales figures for Itanium is a rather pointless business though, because you keep hinting that sales are great, but you can't say how great or how you know, while Elmer hints that he knows the answer too but can't say, while the Inquirer spreads rumours that AMD has the answer and it's less than 5000 up to the end of 2002.
Every new architecture, even highly successful ones like S/360, VAX, and SPARC had very modest sales until a critical mass of applications was achieved to drive sales into production environments.
Of course the i423, the AMD29000, the NS16032, the Z8000 and the Transputer had very modest sales to start with too. And very modest sales in all.
On the other hand, I think the new SPARC64 architecture had pretty good sales from the get go. Perhaps because it ran legacy software at full speed. Also, the 386, another new architecture, got off to a good start as far as I recall.
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