After about two weeks will start the next hearing on the fate of the platform Intel Itanium (8 April ). Opponents were represented by HP and Oracle. In early 2011, the Director of Oracle, Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison), had the imprudence to say that RISC / UNIX-servers on Itanium came to the last line, so that his company stops the development of software for the platform. Oracle decided to support more profitable platform.
After a year of trials in August 2012 the court nevertheless ordered Oracle to continue to develop the software for servers on Intel Itanium. Year and a half of downtime, HP put Oracle on the counter. According to HP, the demarche of the rival has incurred a $ 4 billion , Oracle Filedappeal against this decision and will be the subject of consideration by the jury on 8 April, but now began preliminary hearings of experts from both companies.
HP Company Expert - Jonathan Orszag believes that Oracle application for Itanium, has caused damage to HP in the amount of $ 4 to $ 4.2 billion , according to specialists based on the fact that in the second quarter 2011 sales of RISC / UNIX-servers, HP started to decline . However, as correctly noted by Oracle representatives , the expert did not realize that HP at this time was leader, so that the reputation of the company fell by itself. Besides, there were quite a public revelation of Intel's desire to highlight the Xeon platform .
Note Intel subsequently almost completely written off Itanium. During last year's announcement of the summer generation of Itanium Poulson (Itanium 9500), Intel announced the unification of the future server platforms. In practice, this allow to safely replace a pure RISC-platform mixed platforms, and then completely remove them from circulation. A little later, Intel abandoned the plans. It is possible that this is due to the litigation HP and Oracle.
Oracle claims to HP company is much more modest. Oracle Expert are sure that the company suffered damage amounting to $ 95 million , the company are confident that HP knew about the imminent end of life, for Itanium platform , but concealed these plans since 2008. Subsequently, Oracle company acquired the server manufacturer Sun Microsystems company.