HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support

Fudge Factor 3000 writes "HP is suing Oracle for a breach of contract, claiming that Oracle was contractually obliged to continue supporting the Itanium architecture, which they recently nixed support for. Oracle has fired back that Itanium is essentially a dead architecture and will soon be discontinued by Intel. And so the blood feud continues between Oracle and HP."

Comments

Re:MAKES SENSE !!

[TheRaven64]

Back then, HP owned PA RISC and Alpha. They weren't 'salivating at the thought of selling a competitor to SPARC,' they owned the chip that was the undisputed performance king. What they wanted was to outsource their chip R&D and production to Intel, without losing their market lead. They stopped developing chips in house, and sent their chip designers over to work with Intel. Now they're stuck with a couple of operating systems that only run on overpriced chips.

Re:What this should tell both HP and Oracle

[ggeens]

Actually, the Pentium Pro was a GREAT chip, assuming you were running 32 bit software, and there was no reason to not run 32 bit software if you were going to run the Pentium Pro.

Also, the PPro is the basis for the Pentium II, III processors. It's one of Intel's most successful CPU designs. It was so good that Intel went back when they ran into problems with the Pentium 4. (Creating the Pentium M and Core 1 processors.)

Re:MAKES SENSE !!

[MBGMorden]

Except the original statement in the article is probably true, where as there is no way that gas station makes more money in several years than MS does in any given second on interest alone. You seriously underestimate the amount of money they have sitting around.

Fortunately, this is a simple math problem.

365 days per year * 24 hours per day * 60 minutes per hour * 60 seconds per minute = 31,536,000 seconds per year

Microsoft's yearly revenue is between $65 and $70 billion. We'll take 2010's numbers of $66.7 billion. That equates to only $2,115 per second. The original statement was a 4 second span - we're still talking less than $10,000, which a big gas station can easily take in in a week or less.