Oracle has signed a definitive deal to acquire Retek, defeating rival SAP in the bidding war for the Minneapolis-based retail software maker, the database giant said late Monday. In a statement, ...

Oracle is taking SAP's response to its lawsuit and running with it. In a statement, Oracle said: "SAP CEO Henning Kagermann has now admitted to the repeated and illegal downloading of Oracle's ...

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Before the trial, SAP admitted that its 2005 acquisition TomorrowNow pirated Oracle’s intellectual property and used it in order to pilfer customers from Oracle. Evidence presented during the trial ...

I noted in an earlier post that software vendors like SAP and Oracle have been abusing customers through various means just short of legal extortion. Customers have complained about vendors forcing ...

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Oracle's 43-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, focuses on SAP's TomorrowNow, a third-party provider of support services for Oracle's PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Siebel ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

Oracle announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against archrival SAP, alleging the software giant hacked into Oracle's customer support center and downloaded copies of its proprietary software ...

SAP’s lawyer said Oracle’s way of calculating damages is “a fantasy.” SAP should have to pay only for the software sales Oracle lost as a result of the illegal behavior, and for the money SAP gained ...

SAP contends the award granted to Oracle last November was “a miscarriage of justice” and “grossly excessive” based on the evidence presented at trial. It wants the court to reduce the damages to no ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Oracle has signed a definitive deal to acquire Retek, ...