a past intel company official said that itanium had become profitable (able to make a lot of money) for intel in late 2009. in 2009 and later, itanium was mostly used on servers by hp, which made 95% of itanium servers, so the primary operating system for itanium was hp-ux. on march 22, 2011, intel said they will keep supporting itanium entirely with many new itanium chips being created and on-time.