[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Keith Cayemberg]

On Friday, August 3, 2012 10:27:26 AM UTC+2, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
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> For Rdb, it would have been unlogical to stop development
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> on IA64 but not on Alpha.

Or to put it another way, Oracle "never ceased development" for the Rdb Family of products for the Alpha Platform even though HP sales had officially ceased sales in 2007. The code for Rdb on Alpha and Integrity platforms are essentially the same. Developing for Alpha is for most all intents and purposes the same action as developing for Integrity. So all that was needed was a small adjustment to the version numbering allowed for the code to be compiled and tested and released for the Integrity platform. Everything else has remained completely the same as always. Even the sub-version numbering scheme existed long before the Oracle new version release stop on integrity. 

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg