as a summary of a comprehensive hatchet-job that TheRegister seem to have done on Itanium, this extract just appeals to me, to the point of rotfl…

[www.theregister.co.uk]

In its defense of HP, Illuminata went so far as to charge The Register with Itanium hate-crimes. Embracing hyperbole, they claimed that our humble reporters were “fervent” Itanic “naysayers” who had been “whipped into an ‘Itanium is dead’ frenzy.”

While this verges on slander and probably does not warrant a response, we do recommend reading the following stories for our official position on the Itanium processor: Who sank Itanic; Analyst sees St. Fister in Itanium wafer; Intel toasts Itanium’s success by giving servers away; Curse of Itanic doomed MigraTEC; Itanium fends off Opteron for slowest selling chip crown; Dell 14, IBM 0 – quarterly Itanic sales revealed; Itanic: Enron’s Golden Albatross; Buster Gonads inspires unfeasibly large Itanic CPU; Itanic: you’ve seen the movie, now buy the book; Itanic OEM slams Itanic; Miracle cures Berkeley man of Itanic wickedness; Itanic: It’s all academic now – Official; Itanic crushes Beeb micro in speed bake-off; Intel airs Itanium underpants in public; HP wears Itanium underpants and sings the Intel song; Itanic Zombies check into Motel of Distinction; Do not feed, poke or disturb the Itanic user; Itanic locked Inattic for IDF; and Intel wants caviar, not cod roe, from IA-64. And that’s just the favorable coverage from this decade.

So, say what you will, Illuminata, our record speaks for itself. Now back to HP, Intel and Itanic’s woes.