Databases

State Settles Lawsuit Alleging It Blocked Minority Voters

Georgia has settled a federal lawsuit that accused Secretary of State Brian Kemp of disenfranchising minority voters because of a requirement on registration forms that critics said blocked thousands of them from voter rolls. The state will no longer reject applications that don’t exactly match identification information in state and federal databases as part of the agreement, which was …


Jury Awards US$3 BEEELION to HPE in Oracle/Itanium Lawsuit

Oracle is set to appeal a decision which, if it stands, will require Big Red to make a US$3 billion contribution to HPE’s top line. HP launched the action in Oracle’s 2011 decision to quit developing software for Intel’s Itanium processors. Oracle believed there was no future in the Itanium architecture, but HP pressed ahead (it still uses the architecture in its Integrity Superdome family).