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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <01cecda9-3679-4ec5-8d61-2891f8bb8234 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck
<n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> Remember that Intel's income from Itanium is bigger than all the income=
> of AMD.

I don't remember.
AMD's annual revenue is some $5Bn.
The whole Itanic ecosystem at HP (BCS, which is pretty much the
entire Itanic business at all) is worth less than $2Bn,
of which only a fraction accounts for Itanic chips costs.
So Intel's Itanic income can't be larger than $2Bn,
which clearly is less than $5Bn. Unless, of course,
they have found some way to bend the rules of basic math. 

> They already=
>  appeared to have a monopoly with Relational Databases; preferentially kill=
> ing Itanium in favor of SPARC would appear to be a monopolistic action by a=
>  very rich corporation behaving badly.
 
You forget OracleDB on Power, and DB2 on Itanic.