Shannon Poulin Quotations

We have collaborated actively with BEA for years to ensure their software is optimized down to the JVM-level to take full advantage of our processor architectures. The result of this ongoing collaboration is a fast and robust infrastructure platform that is designed to allow IT departments to be more responsive to the needs of their businesses and provide an ideal foundation for service-oriented architectures.

Unlike RISC systems, Itanium allows a broad choice of operating systems, software and hardware.

We're not going to get caught up in a battle with a particular vendor. We'll fight it at the customer level.

We are very committed to enabling the industry for dual- and multi-core, and that's why we were taking a very measured approach to getting these out there and putting them in platforms.