Hewlett-Packard wins $3 billion judgment from Oracle
A court battle between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle Corp. ended Thursday afternoon with HP victorious to the tune of $3 billion in damages, Oracle confirmed. HP, which has split into two companies since filing the lawsuit, claimed that Oracle backed out of a deal to support HP servers that used the Itanium line of chips from Intel Corp. Thursday's ruling is the second to favor HP in the case, which was originally filed in 2011, but Oracle said in a statement Thursday that it would appeal both. "Two trials have now demonstrated clearly that the Itanium chip was nearing end of life, HP knew it, and was actively hiding that fact from its customers," Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley said in a statement confirming the plans to appeal. The legal loss is the second court defeat to a Silicon Valley rival for Oracle in slightly more than a month, after the software giant in May lost in a second proceeding against Alphabet Inc.
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