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Oracle Sues SAP for Spidering Their Support Site

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the knock-it-off dept.

TodoInSATX writes "Oracle has filed a lawsuit against SAP. 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. From the actual complaint: 'SAP has stolen thousands of proprietary, copyrighted software products and other confidential materials that Oracle developed to service its own support customers. SAP gained repeated and unauthorized access, in many cases by use of pretextual customer log-in credentials, to Oracle's proprietary, password-protected customer support website.'"

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  1. Using customer logins? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's slightly different than just spidering.

  2. Re:Personnally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ever heard of OTN?

    http://otn.oracle.com/ hosts the entire documentation library of every oracle product.

    There's also http://forums.oracle.com/

    All it takes is just a little looking around and you can find help...no need to blame Oracle for keeping everything under lock and key...because they certainly don't.

  3. Who would *steal* Oracle support? by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not that I'm an SAP fan either, but based on my experiences trying to get good answers out of Oracle's support materials in the past, I'm baffled as to why anyone would even want a copy of it.

    Don't get me wrong, there are projects where I'd still use Oracle even so, but if I need Oracle support documents I'm probably going to Google and ignoring any of the responses that go to oracle.com. Generally, some random yahoo on the internet has done a better job of explaining Oracle's products/bugs/problems.