The Itanium Solutions Blog

The Alliance recently launched a new communications channel on our website.  I hope you will take a look.  We’ve put together videos with senior executives discussing the Alliance’s role in their Itanium business and what the Alliance means to their customers. So far, we’ve posted videos from Alliance sponsors Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, SGI and Supermicro.  These executives do a great job of capturing what the Alliance is all about. Here’s one example, featuring Fujitsu’s Richard McCormack:

Since its inception in 2005, the Itanium Solutions Alliance has encouraged key developers to port their applications and tools to the Itanium platform to help increase rich application support for the platform. We have been quite successful in this area — today there are nearly 14,000 individual applications available for the platform.

Over the past year, the Alliance has championed a project between Intel and Sun to provide Sun Java SE 6 support for Itanium running Windows and Linux workloads. I’m excited that the result is now available for download.

We are delighted this critical toolkit is now available. We believe it will significantly enhance developers’ ability to create mission critical applications on the Itanium platform. I encourage anyone with an interest to download the latest version from Sun and share your thoughts with us. And if you’d like more information, Intel and Sun have published a short video discussing the capabilities of Java SE 6 on Itanium.