Oracle Accuses SAP of “Corporate Theft on a Grand Scale”
Oracle is accusing TomorrowNow, a unit of SAP, of stealing its proprietary information. SAP used customer login information to hack into Oracle databases, which includes customer support information such as copyrighted software and instructional documents, in hopes to provide support to customers and eventually have customers migrate to SAP.
SAP AG’s TomorrowNow chief executive Andrew Nelson denies Oracle’s claims and believes that TomorrowNow is using lawful methods to provide customer support, he said “we believe we’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, and we’re going to defend our position vigorously….our model is an appropriate and legal way to do business”.
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