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Is HP Paying Intel To Keep Itanium Alive?

Posted by Unknown on from the larry-ellison-has-no-reflection dept.

itwbennett writes "In a court filing, Oracle accused HP of secretly contracting with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that it can continue to make money from its locked-in Itanium customers and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers. Oracle says that Intel would have long ago killed off Itanium if not for these payments from HP. For its part, HP called the filing a 'desperate delay tactic' in the lawsuit HP filed against Oracle over its decision to stop developing for Itanium."

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  1. Maybe Oracle should do something useful, period. by intellitech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe Oracle should do something useful instead of being a massive patent troll and distributor of obnoxiously terrible software.

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  2. Re:Support by pjr.cc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aside from the fact that the flow-on consequence is that oracle then needs to develop the ia64 oracle side - I still cant see why oracle think this is something worth even mentioning.

    HP paid intel to keep making a chip HP uses - OH FOR SHAME! Or is the big thing about it the "secret" bit cause well, contracts like that do tend to be rather "sensitive".

    But "oracle whinges cause HP tries to keep its IA64 customer base from moving to oracle servers" just sounds kinda ridiculous. Even reading the article is really not helping me get the problem oracle are trying to get at here. It reads like:

    Oracle to HP: We would like to steal your customers please
    HP to Oracle: Um, no thanks?
    Oracle to HP: HAH, NO ITANIUM FOR YOU!
    HP to Oracle: im sorry, but see this piece of paper says you cant do that

    Meanwhile at the HP cave:
    HP to Intel: heres some cash to continue IA64 development work
    Intel to HP: Sure, no problem, we'll make silicon for you, we do that.

    Meanwhile back at the Oracle Cave:
    Oracle to Universe: WAAAAH HP WONT LET US STEAL THEIR CUSTOMERS.
    *much thumb sucking ensues*

    Now if HP had pain intel to stop making the IA64 to gimp dell (or someone else) for instance, then sure thats worth mentioning.

  3. Re:Support by JDG1980 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Compilers aren't rocket science.

    Indeed not. They are far more complicated than that.