[Info-vax] Trial Phase 2 (was Re: HP wins Oracle Itanium case)

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> Why don't you provide details on what Oracle's costs might entail?

It isn't just "compiling". It is also a question of doing the quality
assurance, testing etc. It means dedicated staff, having and running HP
hardware and maintaining the software, possibly multiple instances with
different versions etc etc.

You also need to consider documentation as well as keeping staff for
development and support who are trained/knoledgeable on HP-UX.

Based on the contract, HP could force Oracle to continue to produce
Oracle for IA64 after HP itself has announced EOL for HP-UX and/or IA64
since the contract is open ended and the court judged that Oracle could
not unilaterallly terminate the contract without HP's approval.