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BRIEF: HP, Oracle ask judge to rule on Itanium disputeMar 27, 2012 (San Jose Mercury News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- After months of legal sparring between two tech giants, Oracle (ORCL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) on Monday asked a judge to settle their bitter feud over Oracle's decision to stop making new software to run on a high-end computer system produced by HP. The complex dispute is scheduled for trial May 31 in Santa Clara County Superior Court. But in papers filed Monday, each company argued that the evidence is clear enough for Judge James Kleinberg to rule in its favor without a full trial. A hearing on the arguments is set for April 30. The case turns on an agreement negotiated in 2010 after Mark Hurd was forced to resign as HP CEO and joined rival Oracle as president. The agreement called for the companies to continue offering products that work together, as they had when Hurd worked at HP. HP says that obliged Oracle to continue making software for HP computers that use Itanium processors. Oracle says the agreement referred to discretionary cooperation and did not impose specific obligations. Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022 or follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey. ___ (c)2012 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) Visit the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) at www.mercurynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |