Hewlett Packard Enterprise has come out swinging two months after a $30 million verdict against it in a long-running case, saying claims by Oracle it directly infringed copyrights in the Solaris OS are not backed by enough evidence.
Full article: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/hpe_vs_oracle_solaris_patches/
Do you know the difference between operating income and revenue?
In 2021, HPE's operating income was about $1.1B... Who knows how much free cash flow HPE has now but it probably not a lot to sustain for 5 years. I expect HPE to faceplant once their FY ends in October.
$30M may tickle HPE's wallet a little bit but that would be a few hundred people's (or Neri's) salary gone for the year. Remember: time is money.
30 million doesnt seem like much to a company like hpe with revenues of $28 billion. Thats about 0.1%.