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Microsoft: it's the end of the line for Itanium support

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Microsoft: it's the end of the line for Itanium support


	Quote: Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010 will represent the last versions to support Intel's Itanium architecture, Microsoft has announced on its Windows Server blog. Mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 R2 will end on July 9, 2013, with extended support ending five years later.

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Interesting to hear that HP use Itanium, do they use it on a lot of their server platforms?
Now that Red Hat has stopped support, I wonder if other Linux distros will follow suit. If they do HP could enjoy a time of being sole partners with Intel on the Itanium platform, potentially making HP-UX even more stable, etc.

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