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Litigation

May 26, 2016

HP-Oracle breach of contract trial to begin this week

Four years after a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. entered a contract, the sides will now debate whether the contract was broken.

By Phil Johnson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Four years after a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. entered a contract requiring Oracle to provide software compatible with HP servers that use Intel Corp.'s Itanium microprocessor, the parties will return to court Thursday to determine whether Oracle broke that contract.

The dispute began in 2010 when former HP CEO Mark Hurd decamped from the ...

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