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HP Under Oracle Attack?

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Larry EllisonOracle CE Larry Ellison says his company will use its latest hardware to attack HP, its onetime partner. 

The hardware he refers is a "supercluster" of Sparc-based servers. It sets the record for online transaction processing, with over 30 million transactions per minute (compared to records of 10 million for IBM hardware and 4 million for HP's). 

Oracle bought out Sparc developers Sun back in January for $7.4b. 

Ellison continues saying HP machines "are vulnerable" and thinks they're slow. Oracle wants to win HP's market share with "better software, better hardware and better people."

HP fires back at Oracle's claims though, saying outdated benchmarks don't fool its customers. 

Back in 2008 Oracle announced Exadata-- HP hardware with bundled Oracle database software. Oracle's Sun acquisition however resulted in its dropping the arrangement and using Sun hardware instead. 

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