Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium

angry tapir writes "A California court has ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares many customers with the vendor, announced it would cease supporting Itanium. HP filed suit in June 2011, maintaining that Oracle was contractually bound to continue supporting Itanium."

Not an Oracle Fan

[imemyself]

Hahahahaha! Not that I really think there's any use in prolonging the inevitable with Itanium, but I just love hearing about Oracle getting fucked.

Re:Free enterprise!

[rve]

evacuate City 17 at once, if not sooner! I cannot state this without enough undue emphasis.

Re:Sure it's the Itanic

[bennomatic]

I was going to suggest that iTunes for Windows was another good example of this, but then I remembered that it sucks on Mac OS X as well.

Re:Sure it's the Itanic

[Hognoxious]

GNU/Hurd, please. Don't set Stallman off again.