2010/2/16 Zoran Popović <[email protected]> > > > 2010/2/16 Tom Sightler <[email protected]> > > >> because they cost so much less per unit. Redhat has to make enough >> profit of the sheer number of machines, not how much money those >> machines costs. It's quite likely that Redhat would be willing to keep >> Itanium support around as long as customers were willing to pay 10x more >> than x86 customers for support, but my guess is they are not, so Redhat >> looks at it and says it's a market where they can't make money. Markets >> that don't make money are not good markets. >> >> > sorry, I didn't know that leaders still follow mainly and only that old > fashioned rule to make as much as possible with the shortest time-to-value > ... I also thought that we got past beyond tribal wars. >
It sounds as though you are suggesting that Red Hat should support Itanium even if they lose money on that support. Do you seriously believe that they should do that? Or do you believe that the demand for Itanium will somehow pick up and that Red Hat and everyone else say that it's declining are wrong? jch
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