It seems that Oracle’s got some bad karma on its hands. After suing SAP and most recently demanding a bigger chunk of Android in its case against Google, Hewlett-Packard has said it intends to sue Oracle should the IT giant not reverse its decision to stop software development for Intel’s Itanium chips. Oracle claims that it did so because unnamed Intel engineers said the offering is near the end of its life – something the chipmaker denied. It seems that the more probable reason is that Oracle is looking to gain itself an advantage over the competition.

Here’s what HP said in a statement:

“However, if Oracle continues to disregard its commitments, and continues to engage in conduct designed to deny choice and harm competition, we will take whatever legal actions are available to us necessary to protect our customers and the significant investments they have made.”

If some of the motives behind’s Oracle’s decision are directed at HP, then it probably wouldn’t be the first time. Further, this latest decision also raised concerns in other fields – for once, some users believe that Oracle may even end support for IBM’s Power systems and increasing costs for customers.

Despite the recent buzz, Oracle has been busy outside the court room, too. It is now focusing on monetizing Sun, and just launched a new private cloud offering. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure consists of Sun Blade X6270 M2 and Sun Blade X6275 M2 blade servers. These are virtualized using Oracle VM Server 2.2.2, Oracle VM Manager 2.2.

The enterprise software giant is also focusing on Java, the programming language originally developed by Sun. Oracle has patched 18 issues as a part of the most recent update to Java 6, including 17 security vulnerabilities – nine of these were vulnerabilities were rated at a risk of 10 out of 10. Security is a big deal all across the IT sector, and in this can be said of the mobile segment in particular.