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

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 01:36 PM 10/26/01, Peter Watkinson. Where 
you stated:

> Now the enquirer is quoting the email that was posted to this list earlier
> in the day
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/26100110.htm
>
> Well Maurice Chris and anyone from RH whats the scope?
I don't know.
I have been releasing info in the hope of finding out.
We are a Beta Red Hat site, but this time, unlike in the past, we have not 
received a beta for 7.2
Further, we were placing orders to book more boxed 7.2, and Tim told me 
what I quoted.

As we have seen from the info discussed here, Alpha is not commercially 
viable for Red Hat to support, unless a corporate, such as Compaq, 
underwrites it.

Apparently Compaq people seem to think that this is still happening, but if 
so, nobody seems to have made that commitment sufficiently clearly for Red 
Hat to act on so far.

And that is all I know so far.


> Bearing in mind what Christopher said about EV7 does anyone know if Samsung
> has plans to develop motherboards for Linux and EV7?
Samsung has developed the UP1500 (EV68)
After that, I doubt it.

I have heard of a private initiative to build a third party board, and I 
hear that a certain US company is producing a DP264 "clone"

We are pursuing the Asian third party boards actively, and we do have 
sourcing on UP1500 in place.

API is apparently moving it's support to another location soon, and I 
believe announcements to that effect will release shortly.

Compaq still builds Alphas, and will do so for the foreseeable future.

And that is about the sum of what is known so far.
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