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It took extra long because for various reasons it was the officially blessed architecture (specifically, HP-UX on Itanium) for running Oracle databases, leading

by p_l 3y ago

It took extra long because for various reasons it was the officially blessed architecture (specifically, HP-UX on Itanium) for running Oracle databases, leading to HP suing Oracle when the latter bought Sun and essentially declared HP-UX is to soon be EOL'd

dvaletin 3y ago
Okay, but we speak about Linux here!
- p_l 3y ago
  Ah, somehow I figured out you were asking why IA-64 kept on for so long - as in the architecture in general - not just in Linux.