64-bit products lagging in Redmond
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Intel has been shipping 64-bit Itanium hardware for over a year now, but the only products we've seen out of Redmond that support the platform so far are limited-availability versions of Windows and an early beta of SQL Server 2000. The company is hoping to address this problem soon with a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000 Beta 2 (seriously) and the release version of .NET Server, due late this year, but what's taking so long? Shouldn't these products have been in the pipeline during the Itanium and Itanium 2 development? This far into the life of the Itanium, and the 64-bit world is still nothing but promise. It shouldn't have happened this way.