[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dirk Munk wrote 2012-08-02 14:05:
> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/itanium-346707.html
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>> And the message from Oracle (before todays news) was that they
>> planned to continue development while staying on 7.3.x.x. numbers.
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> There was a roadmap in Powerpoint that suggested  a new version of RdB. It
> was discussed in this group.

Yes, that should probably be 7.3. Not affected by the current news.