[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Keith Parris]

On 8/2/2012 9:26 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>  From what I read, the Hurd issue simply confirmed that a previous
> contract was not ended. So the fine print and dots on the i would be in
> the original contract, not in the Hurd agreement.

Actually, the Hurd Agreement confirmed that established practices (of 
porting and release of new versions) would continue. So those historical 
practices were effectively put into writing by Oracle and HP signing 
that Agreement.

The court found HP had kept up its end of the bargain after the 
Agreement, despite Oracle doing sneaky tricks like doubling the core 
factor for Itanium (thus raising the price of Oracle on Itanium compared 
with Sun).