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Oracle says no to Itanium: Embarrassment for Intel, big problem for HP

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RE: Oracle says no to Itanium: Embarrassment for Intel, big problem for HP
oldsysprog 24th Mar 2011
@Robert Hahn

I suspect the cost for maintaining the Itanic version could easily be in millions, and I doubt Oracle is making that much on that version. A price increase would just cause HP to complain and drive away current customers.

I am sure the thought of pushing people to Sparc did cross there mind, but having run teams doing system level software support costs surprise most people.
ie8 fix

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