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<title><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard sues Oracle over Itanium support]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Making good on a threat issued in a letter last week , Hewlett-Packard has filed a lawsuit against software giant Oracle, asking a court to require Oracle to meet what HP says are requirements that it continue to produce software that supports the Intel Itanium server processor. In the suit, filed in a California Superior Court in Santa Clara, HP accuses Oracle of engaging in a &quot;calculated effort to thwart competition from HP and harm its customers,&quot; and asks the court to force Oracle to live up to contractual commitments to support mutual customers by reversing a decision to stop building software for the Intanium server processor.Oracle announced that it would cease development on Itanium-friendly software in March, sparking a very public row over a rather obscure chip, pitting Oracle against both HP and Intel, the maker of the Itanium chip. Oracle claimed that it was simply reacting to plans in place at HP and Intel to end work on the Itanium chip, plans about which it claimed neither HP nor Intel were being honest. Both HP and Intel say that's not the case and that long-term development plans for the chip are still in place. HP further accused Oracle of walking away from Itanium support in order to push customers toward its own hardware. It acquired Sun Microsystems last year. Oracle's position is at least somewhat understandable given Intel's recent repositioning of its Xeon server chip as &quot;suitable for any workload,&quot; implying that any workload the expensive and exotic Itanium can do, the more mainstream and less costly Xeon can do just as well. Incidentally, not many servers with Itanium chips are sold, and pretty close to 100 percent of them are sold by HP.In the complaint, which is embedded below, HP accuses Oracle of failing to live up to a &quot;clear and simple promise to work with HP in the interest of both companies' mutual customers.&quot;HP says that Oracle worked for years in partnership with HP and Intel on the Itanium platform, a partnership that by its existence encouraged several companies to make multi-million dollar investments in HP servers containing Itanium chips running Oracle software. &quot;The promise of future compatibility is a material consideration in the purchase decision,&quot; HP's complaint says. &quot;Oracle has now abandoned that approach and has made clear that it will no longer be governed by the best interests of customers, by the boundaries of a partnership, or by its contractual commitments and promises.&quot; HP says Oracle's ultimate aim was to discourage customers from buying more HP hardware and to encourage them to buy Oracle hardware. &quot;When customers complained of critical software bugs that Oracle has a duty to fix, Oracle has refused to do so, demanding instead that customers move to the next version of the software, which Oracle says will not run HP's Itanium servers. Oracle has coupled this demand with below-cost offers to give away -- free of charge -- Sun servers that will run new versions of Oracle's software in an effort to get customers to accept Sun servers that they do not want,&quot; the complaint says. As you can see below, the complaint has been heavily redacted' several entire sections are blacked out in order to cover up certain confidential facts, which I think likely contain specific terms of a contractual agreement between Oracle and HP.HP Chief Information Officer Bill Wohl said HP sued after it failed to hear back from Oracle following its letter last week.Oracle wasn't silent in public, however. Sticking to its story that there is a plan in place to nudge the Itanium chip toward the end of its life, it called HP's accusations &quot;not true.&quot; You can read its response in full below.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 15, 2011 - Today HP filed a lawsuit claiming that Oracle had breached an agreement to support the Itanium microprocessor. It just takes a few minutes to read the early drafts of the agreement to prove that HP's claim is not true. What is true is that HP explicitly asked Oracle to guarantee continued support for Itanium' but Oracle refused, and HP's Itanium support guarantee wording was deleted from the final signed agreement. It is interesting, however, that way back in September of 2010, HP asked Oracle for a long-term commitment to support Itanium. At that time Oracle did not know that there was a plan already in place to end Itanium's life. Oracle did not learn about that plan until six months later, in March 2011. We believe that HP specifically asked Oracle to guarantee long-term support for Itanium in the September of 2010 agreement because HP already knew all about Intel's plans to discontinue Itanium, and HP was concerned about what would happen when Oracle found out about that plan. What we know for certain is that Ray Lane and HP's current board members and Leo Apotheker and HP's current management team now know full well that Intel has plans in place to end-of-life of the Itanium microprocessor. Knowing this, HP issued numerous public statements in an attempt mislead and deceive their customers and shareholders into believing that these plans to end-of-life Itanium do not exist. But they do. Intel's plans to end-of-life Itanium will be revealed in court now that HP has filed this utterly malicious and meritless lawsuit against Oracle. HP issued a similar statement summing up its position. The full complaint document is below that:HP believes that Oracle's March 22 statement to discontinue all future software development on the Itanium platform violates legally binding commitments Oracle has made to HP and the more than 140,000 shared HP-Oracle customers. Further, we believe that this is an unlawful attempt to force customers from HP Itanium platforms to Oracle's own platforms.As a result, on June 15, HP filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of Santa Clara, seeking Oracle to reverse its decision. HP believes that Oracle is legally obligated to continue to offer its software product suite on the Itanium platform and we will take whatever legal actions are available to us necessary to protect our customers' best interests and the significant investments they have made.HP remains committed to a long-term mission-critical server roadmap, including Intel's Itanium processor. Similarly, Intel has repeatedly reinforced its ongoing commitment to the Itanium roadmap.HP-Oracle-Complaint.pdfStory Copyright (c) 2011 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.              h4 a{            text-decoration: underline !important'        }        addStories{            margin-bottom: 15px'        }        addStories li{            line-height: 1.8em'        }                            Additional stories from AllThingsD                                                        Yahoo Adds Mobile App To Find Other Mobile Apps                                                                        Hewlett-Packard Sues Oracle Over Itanium Support                                                                        CIA Web Site Goes Down' LulzSec Takes Credit                                                                        Facebook Photos Product Manager Sam Odio Leaving the Company                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Share     Print   E-mail     <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For BMW, i is the new e]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[BMW will produce a line of lightweight, fuel-efficient cars under the new BMW i brand(Credit:BMW)Get ready for a new kind of BMW. The German carmaker announced that it will develop a new line of fuel-efficient vehicles under the &quot;i&quot; sub-brand. BMW i will manufacture and market the yet-to-be-unveiled electric Megacity Vehicle, which will officially be called the i3. The i8, which is the Vision EfficientDynamics plug-in that debuted at the 2009 Frankfurt auto show, will also be produced by BMW i. These futurecars appear to be on opposite ends of the electric spectrum, with the i3 being a small commuter vehicle intended for densely populated cities and the i8 being something of an exotic sports car, with the brains of Tesla matching the brawn of a Viper. Both cars will make generous use of carbon-reinforced plastics to keep the weight down and improve fuel efficiency. Although no official explanation for the naming convention was given, it's probably safe to assume that the i3 could be the starter line of BMW i, while the i8 is the fuel-efficient stepsibling to the Z8. Purpose-built, fuel-efficient cars that use technology to take the pain out of commuting will be the focus of BMW i. The company also announced the start of BMW i Ventures, a $100 million venture fund based in New York to assist start-ups focusing on urban mobility solutions and technology, such as intermodal travel, smart parking, and communication. The fund's first investment is the New York-based MyCityWay, which develops local mobile apps providing information on public transportation, parking availability, and local entertainment for over 40 cities in the U.S. BMW i Ventures is currently accepting business plans on its Web site.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Week in review: A bigger display for the iPhone 5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s our roundup of the weeka4a4s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days:iPhone 5 part shows bigger display, iPad 2 available next week &amp;8212' We reported a few weeks ago that the iPhone 5 would likely feature a 4-inch screen, an upgrade over its predecessorsa4a4 3.5-inch displays. Now we have our first glimpse as to what that larger display may look like.Apple unveils the iPad 2 today a4&quot; but will it answer our 7 questions &amp;8211' On Wednesday, we looked ahead at the iPad 2 launch and the key questions around Applea4a4s latest product.Dozens of Android apps pulled from market due to malware infections &amp;8212' The infection is one of the worst to hit the mobile market.Microsoft takes over Halo with launch of upcoming Defiant Map Pack (video) &amp;8212' The baton has been passed in the Halo video game franchise.Will 2011 be the year of the iPad 2 (video) &amp;8212' Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted this week that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. VentureBeata4a4s Dean Takahashi says that Jobs is mostly, but not entirely, right.And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:GutCheck wins the $1M prize at DEMO &amp;8212' GutCheck, the startup that wants to make focus group research more affordable, won the top prize at the DEMO conference co-produced by VentureBeat.Why Windows Embedded Compact 7 should be Microsofta4a4s anti-iPad strategy &amp;8212' Ita4a4s just like Microsoft to have a perfectly good tablet solution and do nothing with it.A sensor-driven life: IT companies wire up cities of the future &amp;8212' The software and technology are real and are being deployed in hospitals today, and not just by IBM.FarmVille 2 Why Zynga needs to start making sequels, fast &amp;8212' Webtrendsa4a4 Peter Yared argues that Zynga, the San Francisco-based publisher of social games like CityVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille, and FarmVille, is inevitably going to get into the sequel business.Loot Drop banks on talented game designers as it takes on social gaminga4a4s giants (exclusive) &amp;8212' Getting the best talent together is a good strategy in any market. Loot Drop, a new social game developer, is banking on that idea as it takes on the likes of Zynga, Disney, and Electronic Arts in Facebook games.[top image via iDealsChina, lower image via Flickr/Stephen Brashear of New Media Synergy]Previous Story: 4chan founder&amp;'s next project Canvas revealedPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Farmville, Halo, iPad 2, iPhone 5, malware, Windows Embedded Compact 7Companies: Apple, Google, GutCheck, IBM, Loot Drop, Microsoft, ZyngaPeople: Peter Yared, Steve Jobs          Tags: Android, DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011, Farmville, Halo, iPad 2, iPhone 5, malware, Windows Embedded Compact 7Companies: Apple, Google, GutCheck, IBM, Loot Drop, Microsoft, ZyngaPeople: Peter Yared, Steve JobsAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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