In article , "David Turner, Island Computers" writes:
>Can y'all enlighten me as to how many Itaniums people here in COV are
>buying?

The only Itanic in my scope is in my hands bought on Ebay.

My company won't buy one, cause the application is still not available
on Itanic and if the Marvels are maxed out, we have to switch to SUN. Sigh

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:13:02 -0700, David Turner, Island Computers
wrote:

> Can y'all enlighten me as to how many Itaniums people here in COV are
> buying?
> We are still up in the air about selling the smaller ones but so far have
> had very few requests.
>
> David
>
Have two and would only buy more if they came with GEM:-)


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"David Turner, Island Computers" a écrit dans le
message de news: vZNGj.26556$r76.14232@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
> Can y'all enlighten me as to how many Itaniums people here in COV are
> buying?

We have one rx3600 since last year.
The cost of upgrading some software licenses - VMS is one - is prohibitive
so we won't get another one in a while (2 Alphas also in that cluster and
Alphas can run / is licensed for whatever software is running on IA64 so
we're covered for hw failures)

Syltrem

Hi,

David Turner wrote:
>Can y'all enlighten me as to how many Itaniums people here in COV are
>buying?

I'm intending to persuade a few of my customers to move to Integrity in the
next 12 months. Once is part-way through that process now (should be going
live by the end of April), the others might get started before the end of
this year. Of course we'll be buying from a local (Australian) reseller so
maybe this information is of no help to you.

Syltrem wrote:
> We have one rx3600 since last year.
> The cost of upgrading some software licenses - VMS is one - is prohibitive
> so we won't get another one in a while (2 Alphas also in that cluster and
> Alphas can run / is licensed for whatever software is running on IA64 so
> we're covered for hw failures)

The software costs vary enormously depending upon your application and the
state of your software maintenance. If your Alpha system is under a current
VMS support agreement you can trade in the operating system licence for an
equivalent Integrity licence at no cost. Even if it's not current, the
licence costs for the smaller Integrity servers are not that great.
3rd-party software can be a different matter altogether: some vendors will
swap to Integrity at no charge, others treat it as a whole new platform and
make you pay full price.

Regards,

Jeremy Begg

Jeremy Begg wrote:

> I'm intending to persuade a few of my customers to move to Integrity in the
> next 12 months.

Why ? If there are happy with what they have and they systems have
plenty of spare horsepower, why move ?


> The software costs vary enormously depending upon your application and the
> state of your software maintenance.

Policies and prices vary from country to country. There was a time in
Canada where those Itanium contraptions were more expensive than Alphas.