Oracle Remarks Rouse SAP to Counterattack
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By Akweli Parker, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 21--As shares of Oracle Corp. paced gains on Wall Street yesterday  after a glowing earnings report late Tuesday, rival SAP AG scrambled to douse  incendiary remarks made at its expense by Oracle officials.
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SAP AG called for a quick resolution of a U.S. lawsuit in which rival Oracle Corp is suing it for "corporate theft on a grand scale" and asked for mediation to start in coming months.
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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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&quot;(A merged company) will invest more in (business software) applications than Oracle and PeopleSoft could do independently and we&#39;ll give SAP a good run,&quot; Ellison said.
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German business software giant SAP  SAPG.DE is starting to see the silver lining in a potential  linkup between rivals Oracle ORCL.O and PeopleSoft PSFT.O,  the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported.
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Business software giant Oracle remained at odds Friday with BEA Systems over a potential takeover bid after the two rivals exchanged letters holding firm to their positions over the price for BEA.
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Oracle's dangerous liaison with PeopleSoft mixes flirtation with rejection.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O posts   quarterly results next week with investors watching for signs   of further strength in its business applications software as it   chases industry leader SAP AG SAPG.DE.
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Peoplesoft Inc does not believe Oracle Corp will back away if shareholders refuse what Oracle has stated is its last and best offer, and it is taking steps to engage in a proxy war next spring if need be.
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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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Software company SAP AG said Tuesday that one of its units made "some inappropriate downloads," as it responded to a lawsuit filed by rival Oracle Corp. that alleged corporate theft.
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Whether it amounts to "corporate espionage" or not (most likely not), the case of Oracle v. SAP may have significant ramifications on how the world's leading information providers guard their information systems. In his company's defense this morning, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann admitted to reporters that, while an SAP division did download some material from Oracle inappropriately, the material was for the division's customers and not for SAP customers or SAP.
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Oracle went down to the wire in filing its first amended complaint against applications rival SAP Friday in a bitter wrangle over the alleged theft of trade secrets.
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SAP reacted quickly and angrily to statements made by Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison during his company's quarterly results meeting Tuesday.
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Oracle may be breathing fire down its neck with an ongoing hostile takeover effort, but PeopleSoft is trying to withstand the siege by striking a deal with IBM. -washingtonpost.com
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San Francisco, December 7: Oracle Corp on Monday said it believes its business software applications, an area that has lagged the rest of the company, are gaining ground against market leader SAP AG of Germany.
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newsmaker SAP's Henning Kagermann discusses his company's disclosure that its third-party support and maintenance subsidiary made illicit downloads of Oracle software.