[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

I had been under the impression that HP had announced some sort o deal
with Oracle to garantee continued availability on IA64 systems.

Remember that between 2004 and 2007, HP had that multi billion dollar
"porting fund" that was to help get software onto IA64 systems and it is
my impression that Oracle was a recipient of that. This may have been
prior to 2004 though.  in 2004, HP moved a lot of cash and the rest of
its chip engineering over to Intel so that fund could have gone there too.