The FINANCIAL — Oracle added false advertising claims to its countersuit against Hewlett-Packard, alleging that it secretly paid Intel to continue producing the Itanium computer chip, according togulfnews.
Oracle claims HP "made false and deceptive statements" to Oracle and the public regarding the future of the chip to induce Oracle to continue to build software that runs on HP servers that use the Itanium chip, according to an amended complaint provided by Deborah Hellinger, an Oracle spokeswoman. Filing of the document couldn't be immediately confirmed through electronic court records.
HP and Intel had an Itanium collaboration agreement under which Intel would prolong Itanium instead of discontinuing the chip, according to the complaint.
The agreement was kept secret until Oracle uncovered it in a lawsuit first filed by HP against Oracle in June. HP alleged then that Oracle used "strong arm tactics" to force customers to shift away from HP's Itanium server hardware to Oracle's own server hardware.
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