Red Hat stops supporting Itanium
As Register readers write, and Red Hat is forced to confirm , Itanium’s corporate support will continue only until 2014, and in principle it will not be in RHEL 6.
The cessation of the development and commercial support of RHEL for Itanium means, of course, that Red Hat simply does not see profits in this area. There can be two conclusions: either Linux on such architectures is poorly sold in principle, or the problem with Itanium itself. The first hypothesis is refuted by the fact that support for Red Hat POWER servers will continue. So it seems that the partners IBM and HP see that the sales of the latter are falling more. It is clear that the server market collapsed from the crisis across the whole front, but someone has already begun to recover little by little, and Itanium may not survive this storm.
Bad sign for HP. Of course, the difficult fate of the platform is known, but over the years of its existence, customers around the world have appeared a lot, and which customers. In Russia alone, for example, Alfa-Bank, Wimm-Bill-Dann, Megaphone (and many other telecoms). That is a niche, of course, narrow, but rich. And by no means all customers are happy with the prospect of being hard on the proprietary UNIX clone from HP, and only Mad will use Windows Server on such a platform. So, we either double the costs (the price for software in this segment may exceed the cost of hardware), or we take out the old Aitaniums - and what in return? Nobody canceled performance problems, the cluster is not everywhere and is not always easy to manage, AMD has problems, with Sun it is not clear what will happen, so only POWER remains from competitors for the near future.
Hmm ... or is it mainframe anyway?
The cessation of the development and commercial support of RHEL for Itanium means, of course, that Red Hat simply does not see profits in this area. There can be two conclusions: either Linux on such architectures is poorly sold in principle, or the problem with Itanium itself. The first hypothesis is refuted by the fact that support for Red Hat POWER servers will continue. So it seems that the partners IBM and HP see that the sales of the latter are falling more. It is clear that the server market collapsed from the crisis across the whole front, but someone has already begun to recover little by little, and Itanium may not survive this storm.
Bad sign for HP. Of course, the difficult fate of the platform is known, but over the years of its existence, customers around the world have appeared a lot, and which customers. In Russia alone, for example, Alfa-Bank, Wimm-Bill-Dann, Megaphone (and many other telecoms). That is a niche, of course, narrow, but rich. And by no means all customers are happy with the prospect of being hard on the proprietary UNIX clone from HP, and only Mad will use Windows Server on such a platform. So, we either double the costs (the price for software in this segment may exceed the cost of hardware), or we take out the old Aitaniums - and what in return? Nobody canceled performance problems, the cluster is not everywhere and is not always easy to manage, AMD has problems, with Sun it is not clear what will happen, so only POWER remains from competitors for the near future.
Hmm ... or is it mainframe anyway?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78825/
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