[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <5019db87$0$1172$c3e8da3$eb767761 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> 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.

That assumes HP does that soon.  There's no reason to believe they will, 
and there's no reason to believe Oracle will not charge all and more 
than the market will bear, issue updates years late, and not train their 
tech support people properly.

So Ellison would lose some customers, maybe.  In the mean time, he'd 
encourage companies to move to other hardware platforms, regardless of 
this decision.


> 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.

P'raps.  Or p'raps they'll have porting assistance to Linux from Oracle 
for much less.


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

I'm sure Oracle will manage something.

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