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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. But Oracle is "Unbreakable" by gc8005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How could Oracle's server have been compromised? I thought Oracle was "unbreakable"

  3. A copy of the article by Cervantes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a copy of the article in case it gets slashdotted:

    Oracle Sues SAP
    On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California 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.

    Yeah, that's the entire thing (except for the 44 page PDF of the actual suit). Glad I could make sure that everyone got that clear and concise summarization, and can now fairly and properly comment on it.

    Cheers!

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  4. capitalization overload by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
    Could someone translate that to English, please? I can't read German.
    1. Re:capitalization overload by quigonn · · Score: 5, Funny

      It isn't. In proper German, it translates to something like "das Bundesgesetz zu Computermissbrauch und -betrug und das kalifornische Computerdatenzugriffs- und -betrugsgesetz, unlauterer Wettbewerb, vorsätzliche und fahrlässige Beeinflussung von voraussichtlichem wirtschaftlichen Gewinn und zivile Verschwörung". Even with umlauts!

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  5. Re:What by ray-auch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, typically only really big places use it since it costs millions and takes years (and more $$$) of consultancy and configuration to roll it out.

    When you finally get it, the UI is an excercise in how many good UI design principles can we possibly break on one screen. Response to comments on the UI ? - "Vee are the third largest softvare company in zee vorld" (or in other words, they're so successful they must be right).

    Be thankful you've never had to use it.