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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."
get MySQL!
There's people who haven't done much business with Oracle. Some of them haven't been screwed yet.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
The reason why they think they have the right to make such demands is beyond me though.
Clearly you don't understand enough about this topic to be intelligently commenting. But then, this is /. so go forth and multiply, young man.
Sorry, I just can't believe Oracle would overcharge anybody ;-)
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.