HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake

Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun’s Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle’s executives stated internally that the company’s 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems was a mistake, HP said in a filing Monday in its dispute with Oracle over the porting of its software to the Itanium platform.

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HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake

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