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

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> An interesting conclusion from people who think Oracle's only interest
> was to harm HP.  The way I see it is that HP might just as well want to
> force Oracle to waste money developing for platforms that will never offer
> a suitable ROI in an attempt to harm them.

What is the motive?  Why would HP want to do so?  Without some 
reasonable reason, to which you do not speculate, let alone come up with 
facts, the only term I can come up with is "smokescreen".  (I'm sure 
there are better terms.)