Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Oracle Sues SAP for Theft @ ECLIPSE DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL
http://eclipse.sys-con.com/read/353129.htm: "It recalls that in October of 2005, a month after Oracle said it would acquire Siebel, 'SAP announced it would extend its Safe Passage program to Siebel customers, including apparently instantaneous round-the-clock support from SAP TN - whose engineers at that time presumably had spent virtually no time to develop Siebel support software products….How SAP could offer instantaneous, round-the-clock Siebel code support within a few weeks of Oracle's acquisition announcement remained a mystery.'
Even with an expanded staff of 150, Oracle confessed to wondering how a small company like SAP TN could develop and offer 'customized ongoing tax and regulatory updates,' 'fixes for serious issues,' 'full upgrade script support' and 'most remarkably, '30-minute response time, 24x7x365' on software programs for which it had no intellectual property rights' at '50 cents on the dollar, and purported to add full support for an entirely different product line - Siebel - with a wave of the hand. The economics, and the logic, simply did not add up,' adding that 'Oracle has now solved the puzzle. To stave off the mounting competitive threat from Oracle' - after SAP AG CEO Henning Kagermann conceded last July that SAP had lost 2% market share to Oracle - 'SAP unlawfully accessed and copied Oracle's software and support materials.'"
Even with an expanded staff of 150, Oracle confessed to wondering how a small company like SAP TN could develop and offer 'customized ongoing tax and regulatory updates,' 'fixes for serious issues,' 'full upgrade script support' and 'most remarkably, '30-minute response time, 24x7x365' on software programs for which it had no intellectual property rights' at '50 cents on the dollar, and purported to add full support for an entirely different product line - Siebel - with a wave of the hand. The economics, and the logic, simply did not add up,' adding that 'Oracle has now solved the puzzle. To stave off the mounting competitive threat from Oracle' - after SAP AG CEO Henning Kagermann conceded last July that SAP had lost 2% market share to Oracle - 'SAP unlawfully accessed and copied Oracle's software and support materials.'"
