[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Howard S Shubs wrote:

> Oracle charging two or three times for Itanium products which are 
> release years late would not surprise me.  Especially if they performed 
> poorly on such systems once released.

Once HP announces the EOL of IA64, Oracle won't have to resort to such
tactics because it will be pointless, futile and childish. Customers
will have gotten the message that they have to move off HP-UX, VMS and
possibly NSK and Oracle has nothing to gain by introducing bugs.

Remember that HP customers will be forced to migrate. This is a big
project. And in such a big project, there is a risk that IBM might
undercut HP/Oracle and get customers to move to IBM/DB2.

Oracle has to find the right balance between pissing customers off about
HP without pissing them about Oracle.