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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <01cecda9-3679-4ec5-8d61-2891f8bb8234 at googlegroups.com>,
	Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 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.

As we become more and more like the EU.  Where else can a company be
ordered to lose money in a time of very hard economics.

>  
> 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.

This attitude still assumes Oracle was making money on products to
support the Itanium.  Some of us still don;t believe that.

>  
> 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.

DB2, DMS-11, Sybase, Ingres, MySQL, MSSql, Postgres, RDB.  And those are
just the ones I know off the top of my head.  How on earth can you call
Oracle a monopoly?

Personally, I think Oracle should charge what Itanium versions actually
costs and not let the other versions subsidize maintenance and development.
I suspect the result wold be 0 sales of Oracle products for Itanium which
is basicly what Oracle said the real interest was.

> Just my two-cents worth.

And mine.  And we all now 2 cents is worth today, American or Canadian.

bill

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