http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,62000476,00.htm

Speaking to ZDNet Asia in an interview last week, Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager at Intel’s server platform group, said the chipmaker has 150 customers in the pipeline that are “seriously investigating moving off the mainframe onto the Itanium architecture”.

Very cool, will be interesting to see what opportunities these changes will bring, I know one of the security vendors was offering a solution based on Itanium, whether you like Itanium as a platform or not, it’s an interesting read, I still think they remain an interesting platform for the right application/use.