On 02/17/2010 09:14 AM, Zoran Popović wrote: > "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.
Zoran, While I'm sure some Red Hat folks are watching this thread with interest, I would point out that you should escalate this issue with your Red Hat sales team. This mailing list is a good place to vent when it comes to product marketing choices, but I doubt Red Hat is going to change course because of this thread. /Brian/ _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
