Itanium Support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat is committed to protecting Itanium® customers' investments and to providing these customers with enterprise class support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 through March 2017.  During this period, Red Hat will provide support, deliver new features, and enable new Itanium hardware in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 exclusively in accordance with the This content is not included.published RHEL product life-cycle. In addition, extended support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Itanium is available up to March 2017 from selected OEMs.
                                                                               
The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v6) will not provide support for the Intel Itanium architecture; consequently, all Itanium related development will be incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 exclusively.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will support the following architectures:

• Intel® and AMD® x86/x86-64 bit (Intel® IA32, Intel® 64, AMD64)             
• IBM POWER®                                                                  
• IBM System z® and S/390®