Re: MEDIA: IBM backs Sun's Solaris, renews Java pact

From: John D Groenveld (groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:49:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <42c077da$0$38044$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
Andrew Gabriel <andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>that bridge already -- at this point in time it would go
>down very badly with their customers as yet another move, as
>it would kill itanium, which they recently paid Intel $3B to
>keep going as chip volumes alone are far too low to sustain
>any development.

At some point in time HPQ will need to stem the loss of HP-UX
developers to (Open)Solaris and the other volume operating systems
unless it wants to go the way of SGI.

If Sun can absorb the $2B (more or less) it paid to merge with
Cobalt Networks to try and fail to become a Linux appliance, then a LAMP
server, and then a Desktop Linux company, then shouldn't HPQ be allowed
to admit that Itanium isn't volume HP-UX processor architecture?
 
John
groenveld@acm.org