Oracle chasing SAP on federal jury by Milota Sidorova

Current affair between the biggest database software seller in the world, Oracle and its rival SAP is example par excellence how harsh the market relationship can be. Californian based company that has been leader in that field for several years complained about stealing data from their computers and violating their author's rights. SAP was supposed to inflict protected databases and download crucial information, including support services and many others. This is at least what does the company say about the espionage at the federal jury. The case should be resolved within six weeks and both CEO's are expected to testify in upcoming days. Oracle has demanded $2 billion as ! compensation for scattering its business. Oracle technicians said that there were enormous amount of downloads from irrelevant user accounts registered with false telephone numbers (f.i. 777-7777) or client names – Tom Now. SAP was able to wall off Oracle's systems via TomorrowNow, a SAP subsidiary. Downloads went through TomorrowNow servers. The case seems to be even more serious, since Germany based SAP has admitted that it really violated Oracle's systems, but according to the company, Oracle was making too much noise about it – or the accusations were exagerrated. SAP has offered only tens of millions of dollars instead of $2 billion compensation Oracle wanted. According to company the problem started when it bought PeopleSoft in 2005 and at the same time SAP got TomorrowNow in acquisition. TomorrowNow was supporting PeopleSoft software and it was just a matter of time when SAP would create software similar to PeopleSoft and offer it as its own. Oracle claim! s that SAP eventuelly copied their original files rebranded th! em and s old them as their own.

related story (sgx18522): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101102/ap_on_hi_te/us_oracle_sa...

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