[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Michael Kraemer]

Keith Parris schrieb:
> 
> Oracle (and HP) have 15 days to comment on the preliminary judgment. 
> Then a final judgment will be released.

I'm not a legal expert, but any half decent legal system
allows for a second round. Nothing is "final" until then.
Even if HP "wins" in the end, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

> Oracle continued development for PA-RISC and Alpha even _after_ the 
> end-of-life announcements for those chips. It didn't pre-emptively cut 
> development beforehand.

Apparently a dead Alpha is more viable than a living Itanic.