SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp. lost a bid Friday to put a quick end to antitrust claims from a bevy of third party technical support firms that say the company’s manner of supplying updates for its computer servers and Solaris operating system illegally restricts competition.
Sun Microsystems, which first released Solaris in 1992, had routinely permitted businesses to obtain updates, software patches and bug fixes, creating an open market for support services. Oracle ended that policy following its acquisition of Sun in 2010, and began providing updates only to customers who purchased expensive technical support contracts, according to Terix Computer Company Inc., Maintech Inc. and Volt Delta Resources
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