XP for IA64 ...

where to get it?

My TAM tells me that I need to get it from the OEM of the machine I am going
to run it on. I think thats crap. We have such an obsene select agreement
with MS, that if the bits can be had, we should be able to get them.

So I won this crazy auction for a dual itanium workstation, and I really
dont think that IBM is going to send me media. Unless I can use a key from
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for IA64, I gotta come up with
something. Hell, I might just install Enterprise on this thing and call it a
day.

But, I would prefer not to.

Thoughts or suggestions ?

- NuTs

 

Wasn't XP for IA64 discontinued? I know it no longer receives security
updates, I don't think it even got SP2.

Just so you know...

- Aaron

 

Bummer ...

Well ... it looks like it will get Enterprise Edition.

Thanks for the feedback.

- NuTs

 

The IA64 version was discontinued about 6 months before the release of the
x64 version. Your only choice is to run Server on that workstation. And it
is only available in Enterprise and above.

 

Hence my reference to Enterprise Edition below ...

- NuTs

 

yup. The thought at MS is that IA64 doesn't make any sense below the
Enterprise Edition level, and I'd certainly tend to agree.

 

me too ...

for 4 sockets and under, use x64 (also, if you want to run the next version
of exchange)

if you need more than 4 sockets (until a superior chipset comes along), IA64
....

would be killer if there was an IA build of exchange. imagine the
scalability !

- NuTs