[Info-vax] Itanium & lawyers

[Chris Townley]

On 16/06/2021 18:46, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but how much?

-- 
Chris