Oracle calls the lawsuit that HP against the company has brought about the elimination of Itanium support as a publicity stunt. HP would try the databasereus to blame for a possible end to its Itanium-based servers.
That explains the Oracle in his written defence to the court has been given, reports InfoWorld. According to Oracle what to expect, HP is still only stuck to the heavily outdated Itanium line of processors from Intel. Also would Intel for many years already, intend to stop with this processor architecture, and would HP are aware of them, the opinion of Oracle. The databasereus expect rejection by the judge of the indictment of HP, which the company claims that Oracle prior agreements to violate, and that Oracle the Itanium platform must continue to support.
Also sets Oracle that there was no contract between the two firms in which Oracle black on white is required for its software to continue to develop for the HP-UX operating system on Itaniumservers. There would be between HP and Oracle only non-contractual agreements about cooperation are made.
Oracle further states that his decision to stop making software for the Itanium platform is in line with previous contacts that the company had with Intel. They would have hinted that Oracle could do better bets on the software that is on Xeon-based systems running, because the Itanium-based platform is probably not a long life was more short-lived. Intel, however, has still not officially the end of the Itanium-processor architecture announced.
Oracle proposes, finally, that the existing Itanium customers will not drop. The company is promising in the coming years to support, and also bugs in existing software to correct the problem.