Oracle-HP ruling highlights risks of IT vendor partnerships

03.08.2012

At the same time, "Oracle has been pretty blatant about their distaste for Itanium," he added. And Quinn believes the industry as a whole is moving away from processors primarily associated with one system maker, such as Itanium, and toward standard x86 platforms. "Some of these relatively proprietary chipsets and server combinations, they're kind of out of vogue," he said.

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