Monday, 4 June 2007

Oracle extends Cases Against SAP

Oracle seems to be hell bent on teaching its rival SAP a lesson or two looking at the amount of cases it has filed against SAP.

Oracle seems to be hell bent on teaching its rival SAP a lesson or two looking at the amount of cases it has filed against SAP. Oracle has now filed new charges against SAP in the corporate espionage case between the rival enterprise software vendors.

Oracle first sued the Waldorf, Germany based SAP in March 2007, claiming that SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary had infringed on Oracle copyrights by downloading support material from an Oracle website intended only for paying customers.

The new amendments to the complaint allege that SAP also used login credentials from legitimate clients to download software for which SAP and its clients had not purchased a licence.

Oracle also alleged that SAP downloaded a daylight saving time (DST) patch developed by Oracle and distributing it as its own.

"The copied version even includes minor errors in the original DST solution that Oracle later corrected," Oracle said in its legal complaint.

TomorrowNow specialises in supporting PeopleSoft applications. SAP acquired the company in 2005 and has been using it to acquire PeopleSoft customers.

SAP has declined to comment on the Oracle charges. The company has previously stated that it respects Oracle's intellectual property and will vigorously defend the case.