Intel should have made a stronger statement than it did about its Itanium processor at this week's launch of the "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 high-end server processors, considering the bashing that Oracle has given the chip in recent weeks.
However – for whatever reason – Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel's Data Center Group, pretty much stuck to the party line. Except at one point where he hinted that some sort of Itanium news was on the horizon.
"If you like HP-UX, OpenVMS, and NonStop from Hewlett-Packard, or GCOS and ACOS from NEC, we continue to invest in Itanium," Skaugen said.
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