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There are few things as satisfying than watching Oracle lose court cases.

I really _really_ hope that HP continues making Itanium based servers available for 30 more years, even if they are not selling a single unit, just to spite Oracle, for the comedic value only.

In all seriousness, HP can do that to get some out of court settlement money from Oracle, as Oracle clearly does not want to continue supporting the platform.

Just have the Itanium servers as something you can order, but not actually build the unless a costumer actually places an order.

In reality Oracle is off the hook given that Intel is stopping Itanium production.

Can't HPE stock a bunch of Itanium systems in some warehouse, just to be able to claim they are still selling them? Doesn't matter that Intel isn't producing chips anymore?

Wikipedia says that HP stopped accepting orders for Itanium systems on dec. 31 2020.

Oh well, scratch that evil mastermind plan then. ;)

Don't worry, HP sells more than enough inkjet cartridges to keep their evil mastermind dreams alive

(I know that's not HPE's business, but whatever)

H & P are turning over in their graves.

Probably not

Everyone says this until they go work for Oracle and their tune changes immediately. It's... interesting.

Like who? I imagine anyone who goes to work at Oracle doesn't really posses the disdain for them that allows for the derivation of pleasure from hearing they lost a court case.

I know a few people who have worked at oracle who have colorful things to say about the company.

The most memorable version on the internet has to be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2115s watch for about 4 minutes.

You can check my comment to cement this. The pay is excellent but the organization fits people’s general ideas of oracle. I saw contracts signed where we’d purposely lose money for years in order to box out competitors in the short term and then jack up prices for the client in the long term.

What people don’t typically think about though is how massively successful oracle is because of these strategies. They work really well.

Isn’t that a pretty widely used strategy? Eg. Uber pretty much lost on initial rides (maybe even now), so it’s hardly big evil Oracle, but big evil capitalism.

Except that Uber's product is a commodity. It's far, far easier to switch to using a different ride sharing app than it is to switch to using a different database. Especially for a large organization.

Big evil predatory pricing.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp

Common, but illegal.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

Any talk by Bryan is worth watching for enthusiasm alone.

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