[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Unless the actual contract between HP and Oracle is made public, we
can't read the real text, check for dots on every i etc.

Oracle wouldn't have signed such a contract binding it until end of
sales unless there was enough money behind to warrant this.  You don't
sign such a contract for a viable platform (since such contract is not
needed), and you don't sign "until end of sales" for a platform with a
dubious future.

Oracle wouldn't have signed a contract that essentially forces it to
develop full suite of apps and DB engines for HP-UX even when the HP-UX
intsalled base will have dwindled to 7 customers with 1 IA64 system sale
per year.

Maybe HP had videotape of Larry doing LaCarly in a hotel room, and they
forced Oracle into that contract. :-)