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HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle

Posted by Soulskill on from the oracle-making-a-play-for-more-courtroom-marketshare dept.

Dupple writes with this quote from a Reuters report: "Hewlett-Packard Co told a judge on Tuesday that Oracle Corp should be ordered to make its software available on HP's Itanium-based servers for as long as HP sells them. Lawyers for HP and Oracle presented closing arguments in a California state court for the first phase in a bitter lawsuit between the two tech giants. ... Oracle decided to stop developing software for use with Itanium last year, saying Intel made it clear that the chip was nearing the end of its life and was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor. But HP said it had an agreement with Oracle that support for Itanium would continue, without which the equipment using the chip would become obsolete. HP said that commitment was affirmed when it settled a lawsuit over Oracle's hiring of ousted HP chief executive Mark Hurd. HP seeks up to $4 billion in damages."

4 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. SOS by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Itanic is sinking!

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    John
  2. Try MySQL by drooling-dog · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Oracle doesn't want to support it on your platform, you can do it yourself. For less than $4 billion, anyway...

    1. Re:Try MySQL by laffer1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      To be fair, it would be a cluster of skateboards.

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      MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone
  3. Re:damages per processor by moderatorrater · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe for the student version.