Oracle accepts $120M to drop the juicy part of SAP suit
After all the screaming and name-calling in the weeks leading up to the trial, Oracle just settled the juiciest sounding of the charges for $120 million in lawyer fees. read more
View ArticleIs Leo Apotheker on the lam?
Have you seen this man? Apotheker is MIA, his whereabouts a mystery, at least to the outside world. And Oracle is unable to subpoena him.read more
View ArticleEllison to speak (and speak and speak) at Oracle/SAP trial
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is scheduled to speak this week at the copyright infringement trial Oracle lodged against SAP.read more
View ArticleCan a bounty hunter be far behind?
This is really getting bizarre, which of course means it's really getting entertaining. Reuters reports that database giant Oracle has hired private detectives to find Leo Apotheker, the new chief...
View ArticleSaying 'sorry' can be hard
As the trial to determine how much SAP owes Oracle for copyright infringement enters third week, the German company's co-chief executive apologizes.read more
View ArticleEvidence phase of Oracle-SAP trial ends
It looks like Hewlett-Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker won't have to conduct Monday's earnings conference call from his special underground bunker.read more
View ArticleOracle, SAP suit goes to jury with no one's dignity intact
From Ellison's pre-trial rants to former SAP CEO Apotheker's runner to avoid subpoenas, Oracle/SAP trial showed the worst of internecine software wars.read more
View Article$1.3 billion damage award a clear victory for Oracle
Members of Oracle's legal team embraced each other as the verdict was read, which is a pretty good indication of how they felt about the amount.read more
View ArticleSAP should accept Oracle verdict and move on (but it won't)
The $1.3 billion in damages assessed Tuesday by a federal jury against German business software vendor SAP for stealing intellectual property from database giant Oracle could be reduced by the...
View ArticleSAP shares soar on strong fourth-quarter revenues
Shares of Germany-based SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) soared Thursday after the company released preliminary fourth-quarter results showing a 27 percent increase in revenue from software and software-related...
View ArticleSAP reports lower fourth-quarter earnings
Nearly two weeks after reporting strong fourth-quarter revenue growth, business software giant SAP AG got around to reporting its quarterly profit on Wednesday. The results weren't nearly so...
View ArticleApotheker era off to inauspicious start at HP
What began as a promising year for shareholders of Hewlett-Packard quickly unraveled after Tuesday's market close, when the company reported disappointing fiscal first-quarter PC sales and an equally...
View ArticleJudge's decision to overturn $1.3 billion verdict against SAP should...
A federal judge has overturned a $1.3 billion verdict against SAP AG in the case brought by Oracle.read more
View ArticleHP's dangerously dysfunctional board is the real problem
Leo Apotheker may be the wrong person to run HP, but the company's real problem is in the board room.read more
View ArticleNo. 10 tech story of 2011: The cloud rises
It was a year of growth and consolidation in the cloud industry, security concerns be damned.read more
View ArticleSAP bets on Virtustream, OpenStack
SAP led a $40 million investment in infrastructure-as-a-service provider Virtustreamread more
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