No Gingerbread for the HTC Desire?

A post by HTC UK on it Facebook page seems to confirm that Gingerbread won't be coming to the HTC Desire.

Our engineering teams have been working hard for the past few months to find a way to bring Gingerbread to the HTC Desire without compromising the HTC Sense experience you’ve come to expect from our phones. However, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve been forced to accept there isn’t enough memory to allow us both to bring Gingerbread and keep the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Desire. We’re sincerely sorry for the disappointment that this news may bring to some of you.

This is certainly disappointing news. I do not know about this lack of memory issue, the HTC Wildfire S, with 512 MB ROM and 512 MB RAM runs Gingerbread. The HTC Desire has 576 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM.

Update: It seems like HTC changed its mind.