Welcome!

SOA & WOA Authors: Tad Anderson, Vincent M. Schiavo, Gorka Sadowski, Liz McMillan, Maureen O'Gara

Related Topics: SOA & WOA, Virtualization, HP

SOA & WOA: Article

HP Gets No Itanium Relief from the French

However, the regulator promised HP it will continue investigating the complaint HP made last summer
By Maureen O'Gara
Article Rating:
January 13, 2012 12:50 PM EST
Reads:
 565

France's antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence Tuesday refused to order Oracle to keep on supporting Itanium with its software on grounds there was no immediate threat to HP although it has clearly hurt its sales. However, the regulator promised HP it will continue investigating the complaint HP made last summer. The process is going to take way longer than HP can afford.

The regulator also rejected HP's request that it order Oracle to align the Itanium pricing on its database with x86 pricing. HP accused Oracle of discriminating.

HP has sued Oracle in the US over Itanium and has also complained to the European Commission. A desperate HP is now talking about asking regulators to review their approval of Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

Oracle claims Itanium is close to end of life. HP is practically the chip's only user and puts it in its high-end systems, which compete with Sun machines.

Published January 13, 2012 – Reads 565
Copyright © 2012 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Maureen O'Gara

Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

Comments (0)

Share your thoughts on this story.

Add your comment
You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.