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

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> David Froble wrote:
> 
> 
>>Do you doubt that Larry's only objective is to hurt HP ???
> 
> 
> If he sees HP as a competitor, then he will try to win customers from a
> competitor.
> 
> Ellison saw that HP was lying to customers about IA64 and tried to
> capitalise on that.
> 
> I don't know whwther this was a well thought out strategy or a knee jerk
> emotional reaction without really checking with the legal dept about any
> outstanding contracts.

Ellison's original mistake might have been to sign a contract which
allows another entity (in that case HP) to dictate Oracle's product
strategy. No sane CEO would do that, and if so, he would get fired.

But I'm not fully convinced this is really the case, or just
this particular judge's interpretation.