Red Hat Pulls Plug on Itanium with RHEL 6

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Article Source The Register

If you run Itanium-based servers in your data center, 2010 has a surprise for you. The dominant supplier of commercial Linux, Red Hat, is not going to be supporting its future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on any Itanium platforms, old or new.

An intrepid reader of El Reg sent us an email saying that some of the Bugzilla reports closed with a message saying that Red Hat were no longer supporting IA-64 – also known as Itanium and a bunch of other names, most of which you can’t print in a family news site. Intel has been mum on the subject, as has Itanium’s biggest cheerleader, Hewlett-Packard…
 
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