The few vendors with their own vertical stack -- from one-off hardware up to the end-user applications -- will likely continue to develop such solutions for their own, product needs. So if IA-64 is still your bag, then vendors like Fujitsu are definitely who you should be talking to for _future_ hardware/platform considerations. For existing RHEL 5 installs, you're covered until 2014.
While these are far from commodity, one shouldn't assume that Red Hat is not involved at any point. It does not have to say "Red Hat(R)" on the box to have various developer involvement. It is not uncommon for hardware-software vendors to have extended relationships in these cases, although the "branding" requirement is not something that Linux vendors push like, say, a Microsoft. ;). Because in the end, these one or two vendor-only platform/stacks are really on the shoulders of the hardware vendors, and are far from commodity development. -- Bryan J Smith - mailto:[email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:26:02 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list<[email protected]> Subject: [rhelv5-list] [OT] Re: Itanium support ... On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Zoran Popovi? wrote: > I suppose I was ranting here a lot, and I also apologize if I did any > unnecessary harm. It is the product of living on a user's front line far > from system integrators or stock exchange markets with strange 64-bit > hardware or mainframes. Maybe I have over-exaggerated significance of Xen > for the open source, or it might contribute separately from RHEL better > really. Also, put aside my view about Itanium's destiny, and my ranting > about it. > Just wanted to point out that Fujitsu is actively testing (I think once per week) new Xen versions from the development tree on Itanium and also developing Xen on Itanium. see xen-devel mailinglist archives for their test results etc. There's also separate mailinglist for xen on ia64: archives: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/ Although Itanium seems to be losing it's position now with the new Nehalem-EX CPUs.. You might want to check out XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) aswell, if you're planning to switch to x86. It's perfectly capable of running RHEL as a guest :) -- Pasi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
