HP lawsuit toward Oracle is a publicity stunt

A few times ago Oracle has announced that the company will stop the development for Intel’s software Itanium. HP, which is the largest customer of Oracle, filed a lawsuit against the company over the decision. In a court filing on Wednesday, Oracle’s lawyers retaliated by stating that HP lawsuit is a publicity stunt.

The publicity stunt is meant to lay the blame on Oracle instead of HP. This is because when the Itanium-based server business has been fully stopped, HP will have troubles from their existing customers who require continuous support.

Oracle also stated that HP will be the only one that retains the decades-old Itanium processor. HP also said to spread the myth that Itanium has a 10 years road-map while in fact there is no such thing in Oracle as the developer of the processor.

Another counter-allegation made by Oracles is that HP has told a lie when stating that there is an agreement between HP and Oracle that the later company will continue to support Itanium processor. There is no such agreement and HP makes use of the confidentiality feature to protect a document that practically does not exist.

HP’s former CEO Mark Hurd took a job as Oracle’s co-present a few times ago and this resulted in a kind of corporate hug between the two companies. But the cooperation in the porting department was never stated explicitly in any document. However, Oracle has the document in which it is stated that the company will port some of the sections of HP-UX Itanium-based database.

The agreement was directed for E-Business Suite which contained a potential asset of millions of dollars.

In conclusion, Oracle said that HP’s appeal to force Oracle continues support for the Itanium customers is baseless. Oracle has every right to stop the development of the processor but it has its own support plan for existing customers.

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