Court Orders Oracle to Continue Release and Support Software for Intel Itanium-Based Servers.

xbitlabs.com ^ | 08/01/2012 09:31 PM | Anton Shilov

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Judge Rules in Favour of HP in Litigation with Oracle Concerning Support of Itanium Software

A California state judge ruled on Wednesday that Oracle will have to continue supporting and releasing new versions of its software designed for Intel Itanium-based servers sold by Hewlett-Packard. The judge said that an agreement between HP and Oracle regarding release of software compatible with Itanium did exist and that Oracle is obliged to follow it. The latter will appeal the decision.

"Today’s proposed ruling is a tremendous win for HP and its customers. The superior court of the state of California, Santa Clara County, has confirmed the existence of a contract between HP and Oracle that requires Oracle to port its software products to HP’s Itanium-based servers. We expect Oracle to comply with its contractual obligation as ordered by the court," a statement by HP claims.

On Wednesday, the court revealed that the settlement and release agreement entered into by HP, Oracle and Mark Hurd (ex-CEO of HP and the president of Oracle now) on September 20, 2010, requires Oracle to continue to offer its product suite on HP’s Itanium-based server platforms and does not confer on Oracle the discretion to decide whether to do so or not. The terms “product suite” means Oracle software products that were offered on HP’s Itanium-based servers at the time Oracle signed the September 20, 2010 agreement, including any new releases, versions or updates of those products.

[Lx]

Karma from Peoplesoft?

[ken in texas]

Oh well, so the Court can force Oracle to port its software.
Can the Court also force Oracle to make sure its software runs fast on Itanium?

[kevkrom]

Depends on the terms of the contract, doesn’t it? If Oracle obligated themselves to support, then I have no problem forcing them to meet their obligations.

[KarlInOhio]

Oracle should have signed a "living contract" rather than that dead, old paper one.

[ken in texas]

Agree, but with all the mergers these days it's hard to keep track.

- Oracle used to try to run on every platform available.
- Oracle purchased Sun (and may now have a favored platform).
- HP kicked Mark Hurd out and he got a job at Oracle.
- Oracle tried to drop support for an HP platform.
- HP's forcing Oracle to continue support.

Sounds more like a soap opera.

[bmwcyle]

They had to be force to keep MYSQL running. Oracle is getting too big powerful.