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. . . they just care about HP-UX, which they run on Itanium. So Microsoft and Red Hat are irrelevant - HP's perfectly happy selling x86(-64) gear to run all that. HP hasn't ported HP-UX to x86-64 yet because they don't have to, such migrations always entail some disruption and risk, and they have agreed with Intel on a roadmap that could keep Itanium in the picture for the rest of the decade. The more relevant HP response, both for promoting their own interests and "punishing" Oracle, would be supporting customer migration to PostgreSQL, a credible alternative because of available Oracle-compatible interfaces for that RDBMS.
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