:Red Hat will drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat will drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6 Dec 21, 2009, 15 :32 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (5369 reads) (Other stories by Mikael Ricknäs)
"Dropping support for Itanium makes economic sense for Red Hat, according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC's European Systems Group. The number of Itanium-based servers sold is likely not high enough for Red Hat to justify spending its resources on supporting a version of Enterprise Linux for this processor. Instead it will focus on support for x86-based servers, Ingle said.
"Today, Red Hat also offers support for version 5 on systems based on IBM Power, System z, and S/390 processor architectures."
