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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:06:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The court adds some structure to the ongoing legal wrangling between the two enterprise applications giants, as both sides gain some ground in the fight. |
| Keywords: | SAP court date, Oracle court date |
Rivals SAP AG and Oracle Corp. both appeared to get some of what they wanted yesterday from U.S. District Court Judge Martin Jenkins, who ordered that a trial arising from Oracle's lawsuit accusing SAP of "corporate theft on a grand scale" will begin on Feb. 9, 2009, and should last four weeks. The judge's order, delivered on Tuesday at the first case management conference on the suit, seemed to satisfy SAP's desire, expressed in earlier court filings, for a relatively quick trial and limited discovery interviews. Oracle, however, got what it wanted when Jenkins declined to limit discovery to SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary, which, Oracle says, was responsible for inappropriately downloading information from Oracle's customer support Web site. SAP has said that while TomorrowNow did engage in some inappropriate downloads, the parent company had no knowledge of this due to SAP's policies isolating customer information collected by TomorrowNow from SAP. For that reason, SAP had asked to have discovery limited to the actions of TomorrowNow. [Click to continue] |
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