HP Sues ‘Bitter Antagonist’ Oracle Over Broken Contract Claims
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Hewlett-Packard Co. sued Oracle Corp. over claims that in a period of eight months Oracle went from partner to “bitter antagonist” and has breached its contract.
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in state court in San Jose, California, cites Oracle’s hiring of Hewlett-Packard’s former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd last year and Oracle’s March announcement that it would no longer support its database software on Hewlett-Packard computer servers that use the Itanium chip. Oracle also has used “strong-arm tactics” in forcing customers to “shift from HP’s Itanium server hardware to Oracle’s own server hardware,” the suit said.