[ Thanks to Les
Connally for this link. ]
Next week the NDA’s Intel has placed on system manufacturers
will be lifted, allowing a collection of companies to announce
their use of Itanium chips in assorted systems. Dell and HP are
expected to announce three servers and a workstation and there are
a collection of other manufacturers set to make announcements as
well.
The Linux distributions ready to provide 64-Bit
Itanium-compatible versions will include Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE,
and TurboLinux.
As this article says:
“Itanium is the first step in Intel’s effort to shake
up the market for high-end servers, currently dominated by Sun
Microsystems, which uses its own expensive Reduced Instruction Set
Computing (RISC) chips. Itanium machines are expected to cost
considerably less than traditional Unix servers sold by Sun and
others, giving the chip giant a wedge to get businesses to
switch.”
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