Most of these tech companies keep clawing back wages and benefits. I think people would be more willing to improve themselves if they knew that their jobs would be there in the future. You can't keep feeding people bullshit.

These days, this applies to most any technology company. The company can't afford the wages paid to Murican' workers, If they can't import em, lay em off and move the jobs to a low wage country. No need to wonder why Murica is languishing? The shareholders don't want or have to pay fair wages.

I've read that the Itanium has hardware partitioning and redundancy features that the x86 still doesn't have. If lives are on the on the line and cost was not a barrier it would be easy choice to make. If Oracle won't support HPUX on Itanium, why does anyone think they'll support it on HPUx86. Oracle is being a bitch and has also increased licensing costs so many customers have been caught out by this. This is a big pissing match with customers losing out.