On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Zoran Popovi? wrote: > 2010/1/18 John Haxby <[email protected]> > > MS seem to be backing away from Itanium a little; not all flavours of > > Win2k8 are available on Itanium and if you wanted to run virtualised > > desktops on, say, Windows 7. > > > Back in 2004 (http://tinyurl.com/ycbaf9k) microsoft were talking about > > removing support for itanium 2, I don't know if that's still the case (or > > even relevant) but anyway, the RHEL decision is most likely about the demand > > they're seeing: next to none and certainly not enough to justify the costs. > > > > > You have Enterprise Edition, Data Center Edition and wider AFAIK for Windows > Server 2008, so I don't see this is a sign of backing off. > I understand that business reasons are sufficient reality and I can even > understand that I am a justified collateral damage in that story, but I am > merely trying to find out if there are really no options left ... I would > imagine other vendors would offer me migration roadmap like HP does for > Alphas, or SAP for their BI and strategic management reporting, where > customer always gets investment protection (even in special cases, at least > I had that experience with backup solution when we had to migrate from EMC > Legato bought from Hp to HP Data Protector) being informed years ahead what > exact option he has. > > Of course, I don't expect RH to redeem my hardware, but I would expect some > level of alignment with other vendors (Intel, HP, Micro$oft, SAP) involved > with Itanium, and I really don't understand how it is possible that Red Hat > wouldn't event try to compete with HP-UX on Itanium when it is the only good > alternative ? Please, note that I am not being hostile towards RH, on the > contrary - I with all the heart with Red Hat as the leader of linux > community in business and commercial domain (and as so, important in other > domains), ever since first installations about eight years ago. I repeat, I > am trying to hear some options, and willing to express strong disagreement > in a constructive manner if I can achieve something ... I knew all the pros > and cons with EPIC and RISC many years ago, and I am not blaming one with > Alpha/VAX when deciding to move to Itanium, but if that one decides to move > to Windows instead of HP-UX then it is a serious risk - now I am the one to > pay somebody's decision. I was hoping I could rectify situation with RHEL, > but it became very hard for me with this Itanium desupport ... are there any > similar stories out there or should I just additionally shoot myself (into > the foot) ?
Well, seems you don't need to worry about Microsoft gaining markeshare on Itanium at Linux's expense any more: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2010/04/02/windows-server-2008-r2-to-phase-out-itanium.aspx -- Janne Blomqvist _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
