[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> "HP wins judgement in Itanium suit against Oracle
> Court finds Oracle breached contract, is required to port products to 
> Itanium." - Ars Technica
> <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/hp-wins-judgement-in-itanium-suit-against-oracle/> 

So now that HP won,  it can announce the EOL plans for IA64 sooner and
not fear losing face.

Wouldn't surprise me if that "project Odyssey" thing magically started
to produce real hardware and software real soon now. But HP will first
unleash the Poulson thing. (remains to be seen if they will bother with
performance tests such as SPEC - they didn't with Tukwila)

Fact is that Oracle still managed to damage HP's reputation and result
in loss of sales/customers. Customer who already embarked onto migration
away from HP won't change course. Nothing in the court ruling says that
Itaniu has a bright life ahead, it merely states that Oracle is bound to
continue to produce for IA64 as long as HP sells new IA64 systems.

And this is interesting because HP could announce EOL of IA64 tomorrow
with last sales in 10 years time, and Oracle would be bound to produce
new versions for 10 years even if nobody buys those boxes anymore.