[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <c3cd0$501a60f5$5ed43c14$4772 at cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>, Dirk
Munk <munk at home.nl> writes: 

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >
> > "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/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I suppose that for OpenVMS this means that the new versions of RdB (and 
> DBMS?) will be released for Itanium?

How can we tell if anything has changed?  Even before all of this, 
Oracle rebadged 8.0 to 7.2 since no-one wanted a .0 release.  After the 
Hurd controversy, Rdb said "OK, no new version, but there will be 
7.3.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i for as long as there is demand".