A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. [...]
Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday. [...]
Hewlett-Packard’s lawsuit against Oracle over its decision to stop developing software for Intel’s Itanium processors is a “publicity stunt” and meant to “lay the blame on Oracle for the disruption that will occur when HP’s Itanium-based server business inevitably comes to an end,” Oracle said in a court filing Wednesday. [...]
Hewlett-Packard sued Oracle on Wednesday over Oracle’s decision to stop developing software for Intel’s Itanium processor, the chip used by HP in its high-end servers. [...]
Oracle’s decision in March to stop developing software for Intel’s Itanium chips is in violation of “legally-binding commitments” Oracle has made to Hewlett-Packard and the companies’ approximately 40,000 shared customers, HP said Wednesday. [...]
Oracle’s announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel’s Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capitalize. [...]
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said it would stop development for Intel’s Itanium chip architecture. [...]
Oracle on Tuesday became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a similar announcement by Microsoft last year and Red Hat the year before. [...]
Intel on Tuesday said it has started shipping its new Itanium processor codenamed Tukwila, after multiple delays and development problems stalled its release for years. [...]
Red Hat is dropping support for Intel’s Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday. [...]
