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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. Hyper Proprietary by Penurious+Penguin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe the judge will also rule that HP must stop binding their hardware to BIOS to prevent users from customizing their own systems. Yeah, a little off topic, but HP sucks big enough to bitch anywhere their ugly name is found.
    "System cannot boot. Unsupported hardware"
    Hardware Pugnacity, louts!

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    Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012