[Info-vax] Itanium & lawyers

[John Dallman]

In article <a50f496e-93c0-466d-9f33-9e7a26365bean at googlegroups.com>,
dthittner at gmail.com () wrote:

> LOL. It's particularly funny that the original cause of this 
> contract (Mark Hurd) has now passed away, but Oracle is still stuck 
> footing the bill for the IP gained.
> 
> That contract was one of the few things that HP actually got right 
> in the Itanium fiasco(s).

Maybe. It meant other ISVs became more cautious about their agreements
with HP. Even though HP won, the case definitely contributed to my
employer's decision to drop Itanium support. 

John