On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:56:51AM -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 14:36 +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > > 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
[snip] > Being a long-time technologist (and certified "administrator / > engineer / professional" for clients/customers that require such) on > various platforms, it's the one thing I can point to about the Red Hat > Enterprise Linux model that is not as much of a certainty in other > platforms. Many of my clients/customers had questioned if this would be > held to fact over time, and it has, much to my professional name (well > before joining Red Hat, like many other professionals). > > When it ships, it's supported ... very long-term. It is a very solid > feeling to know that I can install something for a client/customer and > not be deprecated mid-release. Considering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 > and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 were both released in the same year > (EL 5 actually about a half-year sooner), this is very telling on this > difference in commitment long-term. > > Especially when integrators and other professionals put their names > behind the implementation. Just something to keep-in-mind. ;) Huh? That's a quite long-winded way of telling us that you didn't bother to read the linked article beyond extrapolating from the headline. Then again, why let such provincial matters get in the way of a rant. ;-) To summarize, w2k8r2 is the last version of windows server to support itanium. Mainstream support will continue until 2013, and some kind of extended support until 2018. Doesn't really seem like a dramatically different way of abandoning ship than what Red Hat is doing. I don't particularly care about the fortunes of Itanium one way or the other; I see it as an interesting, though ultimately failed, computer science experiment. Personally, I was happy when several years ago, we got rid of our last non-x86 servers; in our case, Digital Unix on Alpha. -- Janne Blomqvist _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
