I can see how it might cost Oracle a small 6-figure sum to regression test everything on Itanium, and perhaps they don't derive that much revenue from it.
But if this were really about money, that problem could be handled with a price increase on the Itanium version.
This has to be more about trying to sell SPARC servers than anything else. And as a tactic for that, it's kind of sleazy.
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