[Info-vax] Itanium & lawyers

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-16, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2021-06-16 kl. 14:51, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2021-06-15, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> Itanium is very dead.
>>>
>>> But the lawyers are still making money.
>>>
>>> https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/oracle-loses-bid-upend-hps-3-billion-win-2021-06-14/
>>>
>> 
>> Ouch.
>> 
>> Let's just hope Oracle doesn't throw a wobbly over Rdb as some form
>> of payback.
>> 
>
> And thay would hurt HP, how? It's like kicking your dog
> when your're mad at your wife. Probably only upset customers
> that might be large Oracle users (on any platform) also.

That's exactly my point. (That's why I called it throwing a wobbly.)

And those large normal Oracle customers who also use Rdb couldn't
exactly move off normal Oracle quickly as a result, even if the
management at those companies wanted to.

US$3 billion is one hell of a lot of money to pay, even for Oracle,
and that is _really_ going to go down badly with a certain Oracle founder.

Simon.

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