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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
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Business software ‘specialists’ go headlong into another costly legal fight. Solution? One of you just takes over the other…
Memo to SAP and Oracle: Please go into a closed room with an assortment of weapons and sort it out among yourselves. Nobody cares and as customers we don’t want to pay for your legal excesses.
This not a nice argument. It’s a nasty and snide argument.
“If you're an SAP customer who's tired of paying too much for upgrades and support—without getting the functionality you need—Oracle can help. You can add world-class solutions to your existing SAP system, or cut your losses and switch to Oracle entirely.” That’s how Oracle sums up its legal rivalry with SAP.
In its statement, Oracle says that “among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy.”
Lots of ‘so what?’ on that charge sheet.
SAP proclaims itself as the largest business software company in the world. And it is based in Germany. Oracle has described SAP as culpable of “corporate theft on a grand scale.” Only in America, surely (think about it). Best perhaps to sack the lawyers and merge.
Jim Chalmers
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