HP Supports Customers Despite Oracle's Anti-customer Act
HP Supports Customers Despite Oracle's Anti-customer Actions Amid plummeting SPARC server market share, Oracle seeks to force
customers to buy their servers PALO ALTO, Calif., March 23, 2011 - HP today reiterated that it will
continue the development and innovation of Itanium(r)-based Integrity
server platforms with its HP-UX operating system using a roadmap that
extends more than 10 years. In addition, HP will continue to support customers running existing
versions of Oracle software on Itanium-based Integrity servers, both
existing and future platforms, during the same timeframe. Last year,
HP
launched<http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2010/100427xa.html>
the industry's most modern mission-critical architecture in more than
a decade. This constitutes the longest published roadmap of any UNIX
vendor in the industry. "Oracle continues to show a pattern of anti-customer behavior as they
move to shore up their failing Sun server business," said Dave
Donatelli<http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/
dave-donatelli.html>, executive vice president and general manager,
Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP. "HP believes in fair
and honest competition. Competition is good for customers, innovation
and the marketplace. We are shocked that Oracle would put enterprises
and governments at risk while costing them hundreds of millions of
dollars in lost productivity in a shameless gambit to limit fair
competition." In a direct contradiction to a statement made yesterday by Oracle,
Paul Otellini, president and chief executive officer, Intel
Corporation
said<http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/2
3/chip-shot-intel-reaffirms-commitment-to-itanium>, "Intel's work on
Intel Itanium processors and platforms continues unabated with
multiple generations of chips currently in development and on
schedule. We remain firmly committed to delivering a competitive,
multi-generational roadmap for HP-UX and other operating system
customers that run the Itanium architecture." Poulson is Intel's next-generation 32-nm, 8-core-based Itanium chip,
and is on track to more than double the performance of the existing
Tukwila architecture. Kittson is an officially committed roadmap
product for Itanium beyond Poulson and also is in active development.
Intel(r) Itanium processor industry momentum will be highlighted in a
keynote at the upcoming Beijing Intel Developer's
Forum<http://www.intel.com/idf/>. HP moved ahead into second position in the Unix market while Sun lost
share and fell back into third since Oracle announced it would acquire
Sun in April of 2009.(1) It is clear that Oracle customers are voting
with their purchasing decisions against the Sun platform. This latest
Oracle action of disinformation is clearly an attempt to force
customers into purchasing Sun servers in a desperate move to slow
their declining market share. HP remains committed to supporting its customers and their
applications through the next decade and beyond. Customers who wish to
preserve a fair and competitive marketplace can email Oracle at
gcp-customerfeedback_us@oracle.com<mailto:gcp-
customerfeedback_us@orac
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impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's
largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans
printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure
at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless,
secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world. More
information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
http://www.hp.com<http://www.hp.com/>. (1) Internal analysis based on published market data. Editorial Contacts
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