HP drops Itanium
[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6336019) and other news outlets ran the (not very) newsworthy abandonment of Itanium for their
workstations. It’s interesting that having dumped both PA/RISC and Alpha they now
abandon Itanium. I wonder what they plan to ship in their “high-end” workstations or if they
plan to get out of that part of the market (one funny but unsubstantiated rumor has it that they actually shipped less than 10,000 of the Itanium, not the 100,000 that the Compaq press-releases claimed). They can always point to their Alpha roadmap and say they have a
chip until 2006. It will be interesting.
Monday morning mess
Quite the mess to follow-up on today. Two teams involved in a powerdown did not communicate,
or miscommunicated, procedures. That mistake inflicted an NY-wide outage on us. Not good.
Ross Lonstein
