Re:And Itanium prices are just insane! (Score 1)

IA64 systems are not actually that bad when compared to Xeon boxes. One of my Xeon boxes (2x2.4Ghz 4GB ram, raid 5) cost about 20000USD, one of my top end IA64 boxes (4x800Mhz, 8GB ram, raid 5) cost about 30000USD. While the Xeon is bay far the fastest of the two when doing one task it just doesn't cut it when loaded. The IA64 scales up well and is just what is needed for the memory hungry image serving that I use it for. Of course, if Intel put the same memory bus stuff in the Xeon it might be a different story.