Poor Itanium. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is dropping Intel"s flagship server processor because customers just aren"t interested. Dell is instead moving forward with plans to include EM64T Xeon processors, which are compatible with AMD 64-32 Opteron processors.
The Itanium never faired particularly well, based partly on the fact that it was a proprietary architecture. Microsoft has already eliminated support on the workstation and has reduced its support for even the server version of Itanium.