Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 08, 2007 10:49 PM
Itanium2 != Itanic.
Itanium2 is actually a very capable chip. The original Itanium was crap and performance sucked, but the Itanium2 can perform. Personally, I'm an Alpha guy, and believe that Alpha is (still) the best processor in the world, but it will soon be no more. Itanium2 is next in line for the throne I think.
Secondly, for high-end engineering workstations, x86 and x86_64 are basically non-players. So don't bitch and moan about Audi not using commodity hardware. Several flavors of high-end UNIX are being ported to Itanium2, and that's quickly becoming the platform of choice for compute-intensive systems.
Hooray for Audi! A heavyweight player like this using linux on workstations (servers don't count- everyone is using those) will surely further the cause of Linux on the desktop. Application vendors are more likely to port their apps to Linux when they see large businesses using Linux on the desktop.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 08, 2007 10:49 PMItanium2 is actually a very capable chip. The original Itanium was crap and performance sucked, but the Itanium2 can perform. Personally, I'm an Alpha guy, and believe that Alpha is (still) the best processor in the world, but it will soon be no more. Itanium2 is next in line for the throne I think.
Secondly, for high-end engineering workstations, x86 and x86_64 are basically non-players. So don't bitch and moan about Audi not using commodity hardware. Several flavors of high-end UNIX are being ported to Itanium2, and that's quickly becoming the platform of choice for compute-intensive systems.
Hooray for Audi! A heavyweight player like this using linux on workstations (servers don't count- everyone is using those) will surely further the cause of Linux on the desktop. Application vendors are more likely to port their apps to Linux when they see large businesses using Linux on the desktop.
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