The consumer market might be small, but the enterprise market would be what it is. I can't imagine openbmc being more expensive than a builtin wifi card with an

The consumer market might be small, but the enterprise market would be what it is. I can't imagine openbmc being more expensive than a builtin wifi card with an external antenna connector for basic features. Features like RDP would be more off course. I imagine they could take a similar embedded processor and slap openbmc on it and market it as open just fine. The fact is, no alternatives to Intel PCH exist, so doing this isn't even an option. If Nvidia nForce or a VIA chipset existed for the newest Xeon with similar capabilities as the PCH minus the Intel ME, would you really doubt that there wouldn't be some motherboard maker that would go this route? VIA used to make dual socket server class chipsets, for the pentium 3, which ever age was in.