SAP to 'aggressively defend' itself against Oracle lawsuit

SAP responded Friday to allegations raised by Oracle that SAP's wholly owned subsidiary, TomorrowNow, illegally accessed its rival's customer support and maintenance site. "SAP will not comment other than to make it clear to our customers, prospects, investors, employees and partners that SAP will aggressively defend against the claims made by Oracle in the lawsuit," SAP said in a statement. "SAP will remain focused on delivering products and services--including those from TomorrowNow--that ensure success for our customers."

TomorrowNow, a third-party support and maintenance company, provides service to Oracle's PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers. Oracle alleges TomorrowNow accessed its maintenance and support Web site, using log-on and passwords of former, or soon-to-be former, Oracle support and maintenance customers.

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Pot calling the kettle black, here..

Sounds to me like SAP is doing something a tad bit reminiscent of Oracle/Ellison's tactics, and Larry is getting his pants in a twist over it: if they can't compete directly with a company's products, they try to find other ways to undercut their competitor's revenue model.

Oracle got the bright idea of undercutting Redhat's main source of revenue by freeloading off of their open-source efforts, and then undercutting their support prices, while adding virtually no value either to the product or to open-source in general. Oracle doesn't give a whit about open-source, they just want to weaken it's most successful vendor so they're less of a threat. (Redhat really annoyed Ellison when they took over Jboss, so Ellison turned around and pulled a trademark Microsoftian "let's cut off their air-supply" move)

I'm really crying crocodile-tears over hear for Oracle, can you tell?