Yes. I just meant that when we tried to obtain a few ARM servers, the only quantity we ever got was "1 sample machine". Thus we couldn't even really try it out ourselves, let alone have customers do meaningful tests on a handful of machines.

Of course in "a few datacenters full of"-like quantities there was just no chance of getting anything. And of course, for making our own hardware (you can get ARM chips, just not full systems) we don't have the expertise, size and will.

Sure, but you need a handful of units to evaluate them properly. Availability of units is a huge concern and (imo) the largest barrier to boader adoption of non-x86 servers; ie, no sane person would hedge their operations on a single server vendor that can't reliably supply compatible units when needed. At least, not willingly.

Your product is worthless if nobody is using it.