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SAP Agrees To Pay Oracle $306 Million In Corporate Theft Case

Posted by Unknown on from the also-swear-fealty-to-larry-ellison dept.

angry tapir writes "SAP has agreed to pay Oracle US$306 million in connection with the corporate-theft case that Oracle filed against it and a former SAP subsidiary in 2007, according to a filing made Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The long-running legal dispute centers on illegal downloads of Oracle software and support materials by SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow, which offered lower-cost support services for Oracle software. SAP admitted liability for actions taken by TomorrowNow workers, and a jury awarded Oracle US$1.3 billion in damages in November 2010." The $1.3 billion fine was overturned shortly after, causing more months of litigation.

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  1. Re:Wrong headline by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.

    One of those is a self-punishing offense. Sort of like bigamy.

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