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Title: SAP Unit Denies Oracle's Claims

Author: Vara, Vauhini Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Wall Street Journal, v249 n72 pB3(1) Publication Date: Mar 28, 2007
  ISSN: 0193-2241
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.wsj.com

Andrew Nelson, CEO of SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary, spoke publicly regarding Oracle's lawsuit against SAP, saying, the unit uses legal methods to provide technical support to Oracle customers. Oracle had recently filed a suit in a California U.S. District Court, claiming that SAP, through TomorrowNow, had committed corporate theft on a huge scale in several high-technology raids. Oracles suit claims that people associated with TomorrowNow gained access illegally to many documents, software, and other confidential information about Oracle's technical support system and downloaded same. SAP acquired TomorrowNow about the same time that Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, the company for which some TomorrowNow employees had previously worked. TomorrowNow provided technical support for PeopleSoft products, and the purchase of TomorrowNow assisted SAP in offering the Safe Passage program meant to provide SAP's support for PeopleSoft customers and others as a way to assist in attracting them to SAP. TomorrowNow offers technical support to Oracle customers partly by using such customers log-in credentials to gain access to and download information from the Oracle website. Oracle cites activities alleged to have taken place from TomorrowNows headquarters in Texas.

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