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Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium

Posted by samzenpus on from the stick-around dept.

angry tapir writes "A California court has ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares many customers with the vendor, announced it would cease supporting Itanium. HP filed suit in June 2011, maintaining that Oracle was contractually bound to continue supporting Itanium."

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  1. Not an Oracle Fan by imemyself · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hahahahaha! Not that I really think there's any use in prolonging the inevitable with Itanium, but I just love hearing about Oracle getting fucked.

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  2. Re:Free enterprise! by rve · · Score: 5, Funny

    evacuate City 17 at once, if not sooner! I cannot state this without enough undue emphasis.

  3. Re:Sure it's the Itanic by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to suggest that iTunes for Windows was another good example of this, but then I remembered that it sucks on Mac OS X as well.

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  4. Re:Sure it's the Itanic by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNU/Hurd, please. Don't set Stallman off again.

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