A vitrolic court battle between Hewlett Packard and Oracle over Intel’s Itanium platform and HP’s ex-CEO Mark Hurd took a turn in HP’s favour Monday, when a judge dismissed Oracle’s fraud claim against the company. The saga begun last year, when Oracle discontinued its support for Intel’s Itanium platform  – a platform jointly developed by HP [...]

Hewlett Packard is conspiring with Intel to keep manufacturing Itanium processors to give the impression that the “processor is alive” and is a viable alternative to Oracle’s Sun servers, Oracle alleged Friday in a court filing. Oracle alleges HP’s strategy was to take away business from Oracle Sun, and to “reap lucrative revenues from the [...]