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

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> What is the motive?  Why would HP want to do so? 

here is my theory:

HP's whole strategy hinges on keeping its true plans for IA64 secret to
delay the need to formally announce the EOL as long as possible. It
knows that once  the EOL is known to customers, the churn rate will grow
and BCS revenues dry up.

Its actions are all designed to avoid customers learning about the EOL
plans.

Cue Hurd (who knows everything) getting hired by Oracle. HP gets nervous
that Oracle will make the EOL public and ruin HP's plans. So HP gets an
agreement on paper for Oracle to continue to develop for IA64 to give
the illusion that IA64 has long life ahead.

But Oracle decides to ignore the agreement and annoucne its EOL Which
gets HP mighty mad. And in court, it gets worse because Oracle produces
the evidence that HP has planned the EOL of IA64 a lpng time a go but
won't tell customers.

So HP gets the court to order Oracle to restart development for IA64.
But  the word on the EOL is still out. Cat is out of the bag.

What will be interesting is that piece of evidence from Oracle about HP
having expected customers to learn about EOL in 2012.

So if HP had planned for the EOL to become public by 2012, the amount of
damages done by Oracle releasing that evidence in early 2012 in court
documents wouldn't be that great.