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Can you spell ?virtualization?? VMWare, the gorilla on the street does not and will not support the Itanium platform. Microsoft Hyper-V is strictly AMD64 or Intel x86 64bit. Cloud computing is virtualization on steroids. So where does that leave the Itanium processor, originally set out to be the RISC killer? Today?s non-Itanium processors are as good if not better than the current batch of Itanium chip sets (and they are cheaper). The benefits of a virtualized environment and the capabilities of today?s x86/AMD processors have forced many to abandon proprietary platforms that need to be ?upgraded? every three to five years.
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