back to article Oracle tells court: Boss man Mark Hurd didn't have docs relevant to HPE spat over Solaris

HPE's assertions that Oracle boss Mark Hurd intentionally deleted emails related to a legal spat over operating system software are "mere speculation," the database giant has told a district court in northern California. The two IT giants have been embroiled a copyright dispute since 2016, when Oracle accused HPE of improperly …

  1. DCFusor

    Jerks fighting

    Can we sell them better weapons or something?

  2. BebopWeBop

    A plague on both their houses.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Naughty tech boss a frat boy to the end

    Sep 2010: Naughty Tech Boss a Frat Boy To the End

  4. Starkoman
    Big Brother

    HP/Terix vs. Oracle

    Oracle stabbed Solaris through the heart — killed the OS dead.

    They never cared for Sun Microsystems. They never cared for Solaris.

    Why give a hoot about the remaining providers left behind, giving legacy support for their dead product? It's like pretending to care after dumping the murder weapon in the lake.

    Oracle are corporate locusts: their greed and recklessness leaves behind a stripped landscape where once there was plenty — with all the misery and suffering that entails — their overpriced products demonstrate Oracles’ will to strip every cent out of everything and this case is just another example of their absolute, rabid gluttony.

  5. grizzlybaz

    No love lost...

    Yet another step in the eternal bitch fest between HP and Oracle. I was working at HPES when Hurd was forced out over misuse of expenses and this war kicked off before the ink had dried on his Oracle employment contract. Oracle fired the first shot when they doubled the processor core factor from 0.5 to 1 for the Itanium processor range as soon as he moved, thereby making it twice as expensive to licence their Technology stack on HP hardware.

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