SAP to respond to Oracle complaint by midnight
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Blog: SAP said it plans to formally respond by midnight (PST) Monday to Oracle's lawsuit, which claims SAP's wholly owned subsidiary TomorrowNow accessed Oracle's proprietary support and maintenance information beyond contractually allowed levels.
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Users hope SAP AG's admission that it inappropriately downloaded proprietary technical data from Oracle databases won't hurt the vendor in the long run.
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Ziff Davis - The long wait for a decision in the government's antitrust trial against Oracle has prompted the company to extend the deadline yet again for its &#36;7.7 billion attempted buyout of PeopleSoft.
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PeopleSoft shareholders have until midnight tonight to decide whether to tender their stock in support of Oracle&#39;s $24-per-share offer for the business software concern.
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InfoWorld - Oracle plans to fix dozens of flaws in its software products next Tuesday, including critical bugs in the company's database, e-business suite, and application server.
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The Friday midnight expiration for Oracle's tender offer to PeopleSoft's shareholders for control of the company will either end the software rivals' bitter, 17-month battle or increase its ferocity.
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Oracle today announced that it is moving to a quarterly patch release schedule, even as the company faces criticism from analyst firm Gartner Inc. for its handling of a recent critical security fix.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP AG has asked a U.S. court to order settlement talks in its legal battle with Oracle Corp., arguing that Oracle exaggerated its claims against the German software maker. Oracle said it opposed such talks and accused SAP of trying to "make this case go away." In court papers Tuesday, SAP picked several holes in Oracle's lawsuit,Â which was filed in March against SAP and its TomorrowNow Inc. subsidiary. The suit charged the companies with posing as Oracle customers and illegally downloading customer support materials from an Oracle Web site. Oracle's version of what happened is "dramatic but inaccurate," SAP argued in a joint filing submitted ahead of a case management conference scheduled for Sept. 4. It said Oracle ignored several factors in its complaint, including thatÂ TomorrowNow was entitled to access the Oracle Web site because it was doing work for Oracle customers, and that none of the material was downloaded by SAP itself. "This case, in short, is about whether TomorrowNow exceeded its customers' rights in downloading certain materials. That is not a matter of 'corporate theft on a grand scale,' as Oracle says in its complaint, but a matter of contract interpretation," SAP wrote. It asked the court to order the two sides into an "alternative dispute resolution" process, which would seek to settle the case outside the courtroom. It wants the process to begin in a few months, mediated by a magistrate judge, and for discovery -- the process of gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses -- to continue in the meantime. "As with most cases, prompt resolution of this case is in the best interests of all concerned," SAP said. Oracle was against the idea, however. It said SAP has given no evidence that it never received the documents downloaded by TomorrowNow. What's more, the downloads that Oracle has uncovered so far may be only the "tip of the iceberg." Settlement talks would be premature until Oracle has determined the extent of SAP's illegal conduct, Oracle said. SAP has "one obvious goal: to make this case go away without meaningful discovery into what it really did," the company said. The positions are laid out in documents filed ahead of a case management conference scheduled for Sept. 4. Oracle portrays the case as highly complex and requiring lengthy discovery, including depositions from dozens of customers. It is seeking a trial date in September 2009. SAP says the scope of the case should be narrower and that it is unnecessary to interview so many customers. It wants a trial date of February 2009 or earlier. The issues are likely to be discussed further at the case management conference on Sept. 4, and the court will issue an order with its decisions after that, SAP said. SAP posted a copy of the joint filing on its Web site. Â
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SAP wants case narrowed to TomorrowNow's conduct, asks for mediator; Oracle says scope of case requires full investigation.
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Oracle&#39;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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A survey of Oracle Users Group attendees finds two-thirds have never applied one of Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Updates. Oracle, meanwhile, prepares to release its next quarterly CPU on Tuesday.
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Customers will be able to get their hands on the delayed version of Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite 11i.10 within 60 days, the Redwood Shores, California, company announced Monday, at the opening day of its OpenWorld conference in London.
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Incoming Security researchers irked at Oracle's tardiness at releasing patches for security bugs plan to name a different vulnerability in Oracle's enterprise software every day for a week in December.â¦
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The U.S. judge in a trade secrets case brought by Oracle Corp  against arch rival SAP AG  on Tuesday called for speedy resolution of the dispute and encouraged the sides to consider mediation.
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The admission by SAP AG that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle code confirms the allegations behind its lawsuit, Oracle says.
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Firm says preliminary results for tender offer for PeopleSoft shares could be available just after midnight Friday night.
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BEA Sunday let a 5 p.m. Pacific Time deadline expire on Oracle's $6.7 million bid for the company