[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Dirk Munk]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote 2012-08-02 13:13:
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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>>> "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/>
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>> I suppose that for OpenVMS this means that the new versions of RdB (and
>> DBMS?) will be released for Itanium?
>
> Depending in what "the new versions" is, Rdb 7.3 was/is already on the
> "last version" list for Itanium. So this should change anything in the
> short run for Rdb with regard to the release of 7.3.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/itanium-346707.html
>
> And the message from Oracle (before todays news) was that they
> planned to continue development while staying on 7.3.x.x. numbers.

There was a roadmap in Powerpoint that suggested  a new version of RdB. 
It was discussed in this group.