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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. Sure it's the Itanic by WiiVault · · Score: 4, Informative

    But if Oracle was stupid enough to agree to support a chip for a long period based on Intel and HP's suggestion of everlasting server dominance, then they deserve what they get. Oracle should have bothered to do a little research, and if they had they would have realized Itanium was the turd most of us "little people" figured even at the time.The term Itanic wasn't coined yesterday or for no reason Mr Ellison.

    1. Re:Sure it's the Itanic by msauve · · Score: 1, Informative

      Well, no. Excel and PowerPoint came first on the Mac. Word and Outlook came first on PC.

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  2. Re:Free enterprise! by LordLucless · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is. Unless you haven't freely entered into a contract guaranteeing you won't do it.

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  3. Re:Free enterprise! by the_humeister · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is free enterprise. Oracle and HP entered a contract. Oracle disputed, and the judge said they can't back out of their contract. So there you have it.

  4. Re:Open source impact? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You miss-read that. The judge pointed out that even when they *didn't* have a contract, they had (for decades) worked together in good faith on huge, and expensive projects. In the face of that past behavior, HP's belief that Oracle would *honor* the terms of a settlement agreement (which is a contract), was beyond reasonable, and Oracle doesn't have a leg to stand on with regard to reneging on that agreement.

  5. Re:Not an Oracle Fan by Niomosy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Tandems / NonStop servers also use Itaniums.