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HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support

Posted by samzenpus on from the unplanned-obsolescence dept.

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."

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  1. What this should tell both HP and Oracle by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and any other company following this issue is that they're essentially at the mercy of the business decisions of a third company, Intel, and that's not a very smart business position to get in in the first place.

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