Details revealed in Oracle v SAP

Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Zone : IT in manufacturing
Published : 23 Mar 2007 21:23

A day after the suit was announced, the details are emerging of Oracle's suit against SAP, filed in the US District Court in San Francisco.

Oracle alleges that TommorrowNow stole the data, using its customers' login information (and unbeknownst to those customers, which includes Merck Laboratories).

TomorrowNow is an SAP subsidiary, and a third-party service organization supporting Oracle acquisitions J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft, but not for Oracle applications themselves.

"This case is about corporate theft on a grand scale, committed by the largest German software company," the lawsuit says, according to a USA Today story.

Thusfar, no comment from SAP, whose latest press release, dated March 22nd when the suit was announced, was of its latest customer win, Harry & David stores.

Oracle claims to have seen unusually heavy downloading last November, and that TomorrowNow "effectively swept much of the contents of Oracle's system onto SAP's servers."

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