Oracle Ordered to Pay HP $3 Billion in Itanium Case
Reuters is reporting that a California jury ordered Oracle Corp. to pay Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. $3 billion in damages in a case over HP’s Itanium servers, an Oracle spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The Itaniuum processor is made by Intel Inc.
According to the report by Dan Levine: “Oracle decided to stop developing software for use with HP’s Itanium-based servers in 2011, saying that Intel made it clear that the chip was nearing the end of its life and was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor.”
“But HP said it had an agreement with Oracle that support for Itanium would continue, without which the equipment using the chip would become obsolete.”
