Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Monday September 20 2004 @ 08:00AM EDT
The Register: Leave it to the third largest Itanium server shop to put things in perspective.
A recent IBM presentation has helped show just how disappointing Itanium server sales have been. Sen Ming Chang, an IBM staffer, collected all of the IDC Itanium forecasts from 1997 through 2003 and plotted something that could be called the great leveling. (See the full IBM preso here in PDF.) Where IDC once predicted more than $30bn in Itanium server sales by the end of 2001, it now sees sales barely reaching the $7bn mark by 2007.
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