Monday, November 21, 2011

Oracle Says H-P and Intel Secretly Propped Up Dead Chip - Digits - WSJ

Entertaining times at the competitive intersection of HP and Oracle

“As innocuous as H-P tries to make that sound, the market has never been told that Itanium lives on only because H-P is paying Intel to keep it going,” Oracle stated.

Oracle compared the effort to create a perception that “a dead microprocessor is still alive” to a 1989 movie. “The whole thing is a remake of Weekend at Bernie’ s,” the company wrote.

Oracle Says H-P and Intel Secretly Propped Up Dead Chip - Digits - WSJ

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