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Hewlett-Packard sues Oracle over…stuff

June 16, 2011 12:42 am by Joseph Menn

In the latest salvo in a continuing battle between former allies, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday filed suit against Oracle over the latter’s announced refusal in March to keep making new versions of its database software for HP servers based on the Itanium chip. But it is hard to know whether the case has much hope. Read more

Tags: database, hewlett-packard, intel, itanium, Mark Hurd, oracle
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Oracle ends all Itanium development

March 23, 2011 6:17 pm by Chris Nuttall

File this one under “Oracle takes another dig at HP” or “Oracle kicks Intel when it’s already down”. In a statement overnight, the database company said it had decided to stop all software development for the Intel Itanium microprocessor, where HP is one of the few server makers still supporting the chip. Read more

Tags: HP, intel, itanium, oracle
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