US Sues Oracle Over Alleged Overcharging

CWmike writes "Oracle is being sued by the US government for allegedly overcharging it by millions of dollars, according to documents on file in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The US General Services Administration's Schedules are supposed to provide discounts that are as good as or better than that given to the vendor's most favored customers, the complaint states. However, Oracle employee Paul Frascella, who joins the government's action, learned that Oracle was finding ways around the GSA restrictions in order to give commercial customers even deeper discounts, according to the complaints. In one alleged practice Oracle was said to be 'selling to a reseller at a deep discount ... and having the reseller sell the product to the end user at a price below the written maximum allowable discounts,' the complaint states. Overall, Oracle's actions cost US taxpayers 'tens of millions of dollars,' it adds."

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Re:Good!

[commodore64_love]

I agree with you 100%, but per usual Congress already spent the "millions saved" from this lawsuit. They just passed another healthcare bill costing 50 billion dollars to test and certify doctors as "doctors", and the Congressional Budget Office announced an "ooops" in their calculations. The deficit-neutral Pelosicare bill will now cost $110 billion more, per year, than originally projected. (In other words it won't save money as advertised; it will drive us deeper into debt.)

Maybe we can sue a few more Oracles to offset these extra expenditures. 160 billion / 100 million == 1600 companies need to be sued.

Yeah. That won't work. I'm glad I run my family budget better than Congress has run the last..... oh, 100 years of government budget.