[Info-vax] Itanium & lawyers

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-06-16 kl. 19:38, skrev 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.
> 

OK. I agree that HPE trying to get more money out of the Itanium in
this way from Oracle is rather weird and that can easily back-fire
against other VMS users. Having said that, I do not see why Oracle
would fiddle with Rdb that makes them money every day.