[Info-vax] Oracle loses appeal in HP/Oracle Lawsuit

[Neil Rieck]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but consider this: the only way for Oracle/Ellison to save face on Oracle's mistake (announcing the end of publishing software for Itanium) was to loose an appeal in the courts.
 
Why was it a mistake? In Oracle's zeal to hurt HP, collateral pain would also felt by Intel (financial write-downs, department closures, job loss, etc.). Remember that Intel's income from Itanium is bigger than all the income of AMD.
 
To muddy the waters further, with Oracle publishing software for the whole industry THEN later also manufacturing competing hardware (by their purchase of SUN Microsystems), their new business model becomes "vertically integrated" which would attract the notice of government regulators. They already appeared to have a monopoly with Relational Databases; preferentially killing Itanium in favor of SPARC would appear to be a monopolistic action by a very rich corporation behaving badly.

Just my two-cents worth.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html