A long-standing legal battle between tech giants Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has finally entered the courts, with HPE demanding $3bn in damages from Oracle following a decision to drop support for the Oracle 12 database on HP Integrity Itanium-based servers running the HP-UX operating system (OS).
Oracle is likely to argue that the Itanium chip, used in HPE Integrity servers, represents legacy technology.
