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

[Neil Rieck]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:21:16 AM UTC-5, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> In article <01cecda9-3679-4ec5-8d61-2891f8bb8234 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck
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> <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
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> > Remember that Intel's income from Itanium is bigger than all the income=
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> > of AMD.
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> I don't remember.
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> AMD's annual revenue is some $5Bn.
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> The whole Itanic ecosystem at HP (BCS, which is pretty much the
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> entire Itanic business at all) is worth less than $2Bn,
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> of which only a fraction accounts for Itanic chips costs.
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> So Intel's Itanic income can't be larger than $2Bn,
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> which clearly is less than $5Bn. Unless, of course,
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> they have found some way to bend the rules of basic math. 
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> > They already=
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> >  appeared to have a monopoly with Relational Databases; preferentially kill=
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> > ing Itanium in favor of SPARC would appear to be a monopolistic action by a=
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> >  very rich corporation behaving badly.
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> You forget OracleDB on Power, and DB2 on Itanic.

Even still, 2B is not chump changed. But perhaps we spoke (er, typed) too soon. While searching this morning for the original article with arguments why "Intel would not terminate Itanium" which included the gross/net incomes, I stumbled across this article just published yesterday (Feb-13) titled:

Intel cuts back Itanium plans, raising questions about chip's future
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236768/Intel_cuts_back_Itanium_plans_raising_questions_about_chip_39_s_future 

As Neil Young might have said, "I see the damage [is already] done"

Just my 5-cents worth.

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