Re: Forw: FW: Red Hat has NOT dropped Alpha

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Uncle George wrote:

> I think this says quite a lot. Redhat is doing this only as a
> contractual commitment to compaq, rather than a commitment to its (
> redhat's ) customer base. But so far, at least as the statement goes, is
> appears that REDHAT wont do it unless compaq signs some sort of
> agreement. No contract, no release. therefor the Inquirer is currently
> correct.

That's exactly what I was trying to say :-)  It's definitely about money
on the "backend".  I have always been a little miffed that RH had so many
nice Alphas loaned to them and Debian didn't have even an EV6 for quite a
while.  We have a nice machine now (UP2k...when it's running...damn
admins), but we never were offered half of the equipment that RH got (a
4-way ES40 AND a DS20?  must be nice to have enough modern equipment to
say that EV6 stability is a goal).

> I wonder if REDHAT requires contracts with other hardware vendors? like
> the IBM S/390 that was clearly advertised.

Yes, they do, alt least that was what I understood.  Their falling-out
with Sun is what caused the sparc dist to die (read: Sun laughed when RH
asked for money).

C