Reminds me of the AMD ARM server boards, that happened way after Itanium and they still repeated the exact same mistake.
Basically there was no way of getting your hands on them. They were interested only in "Serious customers".
Basically there was no way of getting your hands on them. They were interested only in "Serious customers".
If the market isn't established then you may need to get traction with the dreamers and misfits.
Having seen this play out a number of times I don't think targetting that segment and only that segment is a great idea.
From a stack perspective, you can't really go it alone anymore. The total necessary software universe is too large to rebuild on a reasonable timescale, and too expensive to rebuild by oneself.
IBM is about the smallest scale that can do this -- and even they're leveraging decades of effort.