SAP admits to "some inappropriate downloads" in Oracle case
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SAP AG waited until almost the last minute to refute Oracle Corp.'s strongly worded legal complaints accusing it of stealing trade secrets in a bid to attract new customers.
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Responding to aÂ lawsuit filed by OracleÂ earlier this year, SAP admitted on Tuesday that its TomorrowNow division in the U.S. made some "inappropriate downloads" from an Oracle Web site but said SAP never had access to the material.
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Oracle's  search for a smoking gun to prove the truth of its allegations that rival SAP  stole its software is likely to be long and arduous, making an out-of-court settlement attractive for both parties.
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Oracle and SAP faced off in a U.S. District Court hearing Tuesday over Oracle's allegations that its archrival pilfered some of its software and support materials.
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Oracle claims that SAP is just trying to make the case go away, while Oracle counters that its TomorrowNow subsidiary was actually entitled to download some Oracle support documents to be able to provide technical support to joint customers.
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I2 Technologies accused SAP of patent infringement in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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A U.S. district court judge has ordered that&#160;Oracle&#39;s lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary&#160;be sent to mediation, according to a court document posted on www.tnlawsuit.com, a Web site SAP set up for the case.SAP spokesman Andy Kendzie declined to comment in much detail Thursday about Judge Martin J. Jenkins&#39; ruling, which occurred after a case management conference on Tuesday, according to the document.&quot;Our preference had always been that we explored mediation,&quot; Kendzie said.Oracle filed suit against SAP and TomorrowNow last year, charging that TomorrowNow employees illegally downloaded data from a secure Oracle support Web site, and used it to court Oracle&#39;s customers. The initial complaint alleges that &quot;corporate theft on a grand scale&quot; had occurred.SAP has said TomorrowNow was authorized to download materials from Oracle&#39;s Web site on behalf of TomorrowNow&#39;s customers, but also acknowledged &quot;some inappropriate downloads of fixes and support documents occurred at TomorrowNow.&quot; SAP has asserted that this information remained in TomorrowNow&#39;s systems and that SAP itself did not gain access to Oracle&#39;s intellectual property.TomorrowNow provides third-party support for Oracle&#39;s PeopleSoft, Siebel, and J.D. Edwards software products.Oracle could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
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The software maker has acknowledged it was wrong when it told users certain file formats were insecure.
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Oracle Corp. released several high-risk vulnerabilities reported last month in its database software and other products, and urged customers to download and install them.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP reported anÂ 8 percent jump in its second-quarter net income on Thursday, helped by a sharp increase in revenue from new software licenses. Net income for the quarter was â¬449 million ($605 million as of June 30, the last day of the period being reported), up from â¬415 million in the second quarter last year. That was equal to earnings of â¬0.37 per share, up from â¬0.34 per share a year earlier. Revenue from new software licenses climbed 18 percent to â¬715 million, from â¬604 million last year. Total revenue, including maintenance fees, support and other services, climbed 10 percent to â¬2.4 billion, up from â¬2.2 billion in the second quarter of 2006. The results were better than some analysts expected and showed that SAP is continuing to add new customers even while its main rival, Oracle, grows its applications business throughÂ acquisitions. For the comparable period, its financial quarter ending May 31,Â Oracle increased revenueÂ from new applications licenses by 13 percent, to $641 million. In SAP's biggest market -- Europe, the Middle East, and Africa -- total revenue was up by 12 percent, to â¬1.27 billion. Growth in the Americas, dragged down by the strong euro against the U.S. dollar, was just 6 percent, to give revenue of â¬853 million. SAP continues to grow fastest in Asia, where revenue climbed 20 percent to â¬304 million. CEO Henning Kagermann called it "an excellent quarter." SAP will continue to invest heavily in new products for the midmarket, he said in a statement. The company is spending â¬300 million to â¬400 million over two years to develop a new suite of on-demand applications, intended to offset slower growth from large enterprises. The results come as SAP continues toÂ battle Oracle in U.S. courtÂ for alleged corporate theft. Oracle charged that SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary hacked into Oracle's customer support Web site and downloaded software fixes and support materials for Oracle's PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications. SAP planned to use the materials to offer cut-rate services to Oracle customers, according to Oracle's lawsuit. In its response last month, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made someÂ "inappropriate" downloadsÂ of Oracle materials. But it played down the extent of the transgressions and said SAP itself did not have access to the materials. A case management conference is set for September. Â
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Software company SAP AG acknowledged Tuesday that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle Corp. computer code for fixes and support documents, responding to a lawsuit filed by its rival.
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German business software vendor SAP AG issued a warning to customers not to provide confidential information on the phone to people claiming to be company support staff.
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Blog: Decision could mean companies may be compelled to turn over RAM data in civil cases. TorrentSpy vows to continue legal fight.
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A day after a PeopleSoft executive vice president said that Oracle and SAP are its only software competitors when dealing with large enterprise companies, more
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Oracle's Ellison has made SAP enemy No. 1. But SAP is fighting back the right way: by getting customers.
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Blog: Critical security flaws patched in EnjoySAP and SAP Web Application Server, as well as more moderate security vulnerability in SAP Message Server, according to advisory issued by Next Generation Security Software (NGSS).
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Software company SAP AG acknowledged Tuesday that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle Corp. computer code for fixes and support documents, responding to a lawsuit filed by its rival.