It will have to pay HPE $3 billion in damages
The US Supreme Court took time out from its busy schedule of trying to turn back the clock on US abortion law to refuse to hear Oracle's appeal to overturn a ruling ordering the IT giant to pay $3 billion in damages.
In June 2011 HP sued Oracle for refusing to add Itanium support to its database software. HP alleged Oracle had violated a contract agreement, Oracle claimed it explicitly refused requests to support Intel's Itanium processors at the time.
After years in the courts, Oracle was ordered to cough up $3 billion in damages in a jury trial, and appealed the decision all the way to the highest judges in America. Now, the Supreme Court has told it to give up.
The case centred on what Oracle and HP agreed after Oracle hired HP's former CEO, the late Mark Hurd. That agreement acknowledged both companies had a "longstanding strategic relationship" and a "mutual desire to continue to support their mutual customers."
https://fudzilla.com/news/54861-us-s...n-itanium-case
US Supreme Court tells Oracle to give up on Itanium case
18th May 2022, 08:58
US Supreme Court tells Oracle to give up on Itanium case 
