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

You young whippersnappers

[atari2600a]

Why in my day Oracle had to support my UNIVAC for fifteen miles in the snow barefoot uphill both ways!

Re:You young whippersnappers

[JustOK]

You had FEET?

What this should tell both HP and Oracle

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

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.

Re:What this should tell both HP and Oracle

[stiggle]

Oracle now has their own hardware line, which doesn't involve Intel, on Sparc processors.
HP used to produce their own, PA-Risc, but combined the tech with Intel to make the Itanium.

fuck off, HPaq

[Hazel Bergeron]

You are the epitome of modern corporate culture. You destroyed the Alpha and are letting VMS rot. You outsource or offshore everything that isn't bolted down, but nothing is improved. Under Fiorina you demonstrated precisely how to run a company down for short term profit while cosying up to the corporation-friendly government. Hell, you've even ruined your reputation for building hardy calculators. Over a decade after this mess started, the only thing you have left to be proud of is the propotion of your profits which come from selling printer ink.

It's a small wonder zombie Hewlett and Packard haven't risen from the grave, given a new lease of life in death by recently shuffled Olsen, to personally escort every HP executive to the lowest region of hell.

Re:fuck off, HPaq

[Rogerborg]

HP now appears to be composed entirely of execs, lawyers, marketeers, and one guy called Mike who runs runs the offshored sweatshops from his basement office in Woodside. How the mighty have fallen.

Re:fuck off, HPaq

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I believe that you mean:

"HP's the very model of a modern multinational,
their expertise confined to MBAs and quibblers contractual,
the rest's been outsourced from Shenzhen to Hyderabad,
a plan that makes none but investors glad,
seeking strategies for how to make their systems worse,
they gobbled up Compaq with the power of their purse,
and after they had freed themselves of ghastly Fiorina,
she left the private sector to afflict the state of California."

With deepest apologies(not to be construed as admission of wrongdoing) to Gilbert and Sullivan.

mySQL rename

[Tuqui]

Oracle should rename mySQL as "Oracle for Itanium" and send it to HP.

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.