both red hat and microsoft said that they would stop allowing itanium to be used with their operating systems. however, other linux distributions such as gentoo and debian are still available for itanium. on march 22, 2011, oracle said they would no longer support itanium, but support for their existing products would continue. in october 2013, oracle said they would release oracle database 12.1.0.1.0 on hp-ux itanium 11.31 by early 2014.