First lets remember that OS/2 was a Microsoft Windows operating system product. I get so frustrated with authors that neglect that most important fact. Then lets note that Citrix is a company formed by the OS/2 developers and then lets add to our knowledge by pointing out how Citrix is saving Microsoft Office 2007/ Vista.
Then lets back up to the Patty Dunn identity thefts. This involved Zdnet/Cnet reporters. In any case the theft caused congressional testimony to be given regarding a three-way-back-room secrete deal where HP was to get special pricing for Itanium processors and Microsoft was to get a platform that Microsoft SQL Server would better IBM's DB2 and Oracle 9i on. The testimony resulted in the removal of virtually all who worked on the project from all three companies and the mysterious disappearance of a Microsoft database scientist who was lost at sea. The Itanium is now known as Titaium as in Titanic + Itanium and only the most shielded workers in our industry do not know this story by now.
But there is more. Vista and Office 2007 was developed with Itanium in mind. It is for this reason that Vista and Office 2007 do not benchmark well against software developed with Java on the newer PCS. Java was created with multicore multiprocesors in mind. Hence programs written in Java naturally take advantage of threading to use the multiplicity of these processors. Vista and Office were meant for singleton processors. They still need to be rewritten to match the realities of todays computing devices.
And now for the rest of the story. If you put Vista and Office 2007 "in the cloud", you can run it on very fast Itanium like 64 bit servers. It no longer appears slow. Hence Citrix saves Vista and OS/2.
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