SAN JOSE (California): Oracle Corp violated a clear contract with Hewlett-Packard Co when it decided it would no longer make new versions of its database software compatible with HP’s Itanium-based servers, a lawyer for HP said in court.
As the two firms faced off on Monday in opening statements in a bitter lawsuit over Oracle’s decision to end support for Itanium, an Oracle attorney countered that Oracle had never agreed to give up its business flexibility in the “brief, breezy” contract language cited by HP.
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