HP, Intel set up Itanium Solutions Alliance

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
10/06/05
Today's focus: HP, Intel set up Itanium Solutions Alliance

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* HP, Intel alliance aims to promote Itanium apps development
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Today's focus: HP, Intel set up Itanium Solutions Alliance

By Deni Connor

Intel and HP last week announced the formation of the Itanium
Solutions Alliance, aimed at accelerating the development of
applications running on Itanium-based servers.

The software vendors that have joined are BEA, Sybase, Oracle,
Microsoft, Novell, Symantec, SAS, Trend Micro and Informatica.
However, a number of business-critical application vendors are
missing from that list, including SAP and IBM's software
business, which develops the DB2 and Informix databases.

Hardware vendors that have joined and have committed to building
Itanium servers include Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, Unisys, Hitachi
and SGI. Conspicuous by its absence from the alliance is Dell,
which earlier last month said it would abandon the Itanium
processor <http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers7933> . Dell
first introduced its Itanium-based PowerEdge 7150 server in
2001, which it still supports. That server was followed by the
PowerEdge 3250, which it now sells at its Factory Outlet site.
Also absent from the list of hardware manufacturers as members
is IBM, which relies on Intel Xeon processors and its own Power
architecture. Sun also didn't join the party - it relies heavily
on its own UltraSparc processor and on AMD's Opteron processor.

HP and Intel will provide alliance members with access to
technical resources, training and marketing. The alliance claims
there are 75-plus vendors shipping Itanium today and more than
10 operating systems supporting it. Among the operating system
support is Microsoft Windows
<http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/nos/009913.html?rl>, Bull
GCOS, Novell's SuSE Enterprise Linux, Red Hat, HP-UX, OpenVMS,
Non Stop Kernel and NEC's operating system.

The alliance claims too that more than 5,000 applications have
been ported to the Itanium platform and that over 70,000
Itaniums have been deployed in enterprise-class businesses.

To help alliance members develop Itanium applications and
hardware, a series of Developer Days will be held and a
Solutions Center Network and catalog will be set up. The first
of the Developer Days will be held in Santa Clara this November.

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To contact: Deni Connor

Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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This newsletter is sponsored by Sybase

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you'll glean valuable insights that can drive both revenue
growth and competitive advantage. Along the way, however,
companies are discovering that managing the explosive growth of
online data can prove a formidable challenge. Here's how to
assess your data management style, and maximize your
opportunities to turn online data into business opportunity.
Click here for more on taming the data explosion.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=116803
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