[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:38:32 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:

> 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)

Somewhere in the mountains of articles on the subject was that the last 
SPEC benchmark that HP ran needed Oracle's signature, and that was not 
forthcoming.
 
> 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.

I have already come across suggestions that the next courtroom battle 
might be over compensation for that damage.

-- 
Paul Sture