"everyone" - to be defined, I am not clear with that. All I'm saying, if it's only about price of the support it wouldn't be a problem to pay 10x more for Itanium as it is for some other platforms (are there similar platforms ?) and correct prices later on ... I am a customer, I am not aware if some hardware vendors (HP, Intel, IBM, Sun) are not investing into Red Hat and if they should be. Deciding to abandon a platform sounds too harsh, especially when it still has potential to increase market share or whatever, so that decision could've followed on in time. Also, if HP favours Windows for a small fraction of license price of Red Hat for small fraction of subscription price (which is lower), or Red Hat favours KVM to Xen (being supported by different vendor) it still doesn't mean that price correction would be less popular than to abandon Xen as product which could gain more official support in time (it is always about time, Xen was quite stable in RHEL5 and other vendors need time to evaluate things). Maybe I am not aware or educated enough about financial stuff to understand this - different vendors have different interests and usually many options, but if it all comes down to market share and revenue above all ... ZP.
2010/2/17 John Haxby <[email protected]> > > > 2010/2/16 Zoran Popović <[email protected]> > >> >> >> 2010/2/16 Tom Sightler <[email protected]> >> >> >>> because they cost so much less per unit. Redhat has to make enough >>> >>> profit of the sheer number of machines, not how much money those >>> machines costs. It's quite likely that Redhat would be willing to keep >>> Itanium support around as long as customers were willing to pay 10x more >>> than x86 customers for support, but my guess is they are not, so Redhat >>> looks at it and says it's a market where they can't make money. Markets >>> that don't make money are not good markets. >>> >>> >> sorry, I didn't know that leaders still follow mainly and only that old >> fashioned rule to make as much as possible with the shortest time-to-value >> ... I also thought that we got past beyond tribal wars. >> > > > It sounds as though you are suggesting that Red Hat should support Itanium > even if they lose money on that support. Do you seriously believe that > they should do that? Or do you believe that the demand for Itanium will > somehow pick up and that Red Hat and everyone else say that it's declining > are wrong? > > jch > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > >
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