How much does it cost to keep Intel from dumping a chip that hardly anyone is buying? Well, if you're Hewlett Packard, that would be about $88 million per year.

That's what came out on Monday, after a Santa Clara County Court judge ordered court documents unsealed in HP and Oracle's angry dispute centering on Oracle's decision stop supporting the processor that runs HP's high-end servers.

In 2008, HP agreed to pay Intel $440 million dollars over five years – between 2009 and 2014 – to keep producing the Itanium chips. Of course, HP would also have to pay for the cost of the processors it ordered. Then in 2010, the two companies signed another $250 million deal that would keep Itanium on life support through 2017.

Because HP didn't disclose this deal to its customers, Oracle says that HP was engaging in fraud, but the judge in the case, James Kleinberg, apparently didn't agree.

He threw out one part of Oracle's fraud claims Monday, but he also allowed for unredacted versions of some of the court fillings to be published. That allowed both sides to claim victory.

In a press release, HP said it was happy to see the fraud claims rejected. Oracle, for its part, said it was "delighted" to see the court reject "HP’s attempt to hide the truth about Itanium’s certain end of life from its customers, partners and own employees"

Itanium was supposed to be a superchip that united the high-end server business, but it turned out that Intel's boring old X86 chips – now sold as Xeon – were good enough to get the job done. HP did get many of its Unix customers to move to Itanium – that's why it's the only server vendor in the industry that wants to keep Itanium alive – and about 140,000 Itanium customers run the Oracle database.

Barring a court ruling in HP's favor, they'll all be in trouble when the new version of Oracle's database comes out later this year.

*Update: This article has been updated to to clarify that not all of Oracle's fraud claims were thrown out of court Monday. *