HP Itanium market share is tiny

I agree with A. C. #3

HP is the largest x32 & x64 server provider in the market workdwide. Xeon and Pentium familes.

HP-UX/Open VMS on Itanium has tiny market share for 2009/10 new server sales. Outside the USA, where Linux is not suitable for a specific extra-large SMP we see AIX is winning, HP-UX second, and Solaris SPARC nowhere. My worldwide customers ARE asking for Linux on HP Itanium now, but this is only so they can get off HP-UX, convert the hardware to Linux to and simplify their training and supprt costs. Decent sized server buys are Xeons and AMD, and most of those are virtualized.

The interesting next data point will be what will VMware's position be going forward, with say vSphere 5?