Oracle vs. Rimini Street nears finale, but third party maintenance blueprint far from set
You'd think that the Oracle vs. Rimini Street lawsuit would set a solid blueprint for third party enterprise software maintenance. Think again.
You'd think that the Oracle vs. Rimini Street lawsuit would set a solid blueprint for third party enterprise software maintenance. Think again.
A long-standing battle between the two tech giants is potentially at an end, resulting in Oracle winning limited damages — or opting for a retrial.
Oracle won $1.3 billion against SAP, but that was later thrown out by a district judge. Oracle wants that reinstated, but the third court to look at the case appears wary.
A federal judge has backed Oracle's position against third-party support vendor Rimini Street in rulings over defamation claims and copyright theft.
Oracle gets a legal victory in a Nevada federal court, but so does Rimini Street. Customers need to read a judge's ruling and Rimini's workaround plans.
Oracle has rejected SAP's offer of $306 million to settle a copyright infringement case launched in 2007, according to SAP.
Oracle's growth may not be what it seems given lower tax rates have helped. Meanwhile, Oracle is getting beat up in court and it's unclear whether it can navigate tech shifts, says an analyst.
The SEC said that employees of Oracle's India unit structured transactions with the government to allow distributors to hold $2.2 million in "unauthorized side funds."
SAP talked up HANA, mobile and its cloud unit powered by SuccessFactors amid lumpy first quarter results.
Bitter licensing and support memories may be a bigger impediment to adoption of the enterprise old guard's next generation product offerings than they realize, especially given third party options for legacy support, which can provide savings that can be applied to future customer innovation initiatives