SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle

by Thomas Ricker posted Jul 3rd 2007 at 7:08AM

Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate ~~competitive intelligence~~ espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage. Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-rival, Oracle in the US. Oracle is suing SAP with claims that it is guilty of "corporate theft on a grand scale" after hacking into Oracle's computer network and stealing a "wide range of copyrighted software and other material" from their Peoplesoft business unit. Taking the presidential classic, "I didn't inhale" defense, SAP admits to stealing the data but claims it never left the systems of their wholly owned subsidiary, TomorrowNow (where SAP has "made changes" to management). Well, at least now we can more clearly see why the French are so concerned with their sensitive data being hosted outside of their immediate control.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: espionage, industrial espionage, IndustrialEspionage, oracle, sap

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fghfghfgh @ Jul 3rd 2007 8:10AM

Yay, SAP über alles!

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ScOObyDoo @ Jul 3rd 2007 8:25AM

Wow, for them to just admit this means Oracle must have had some pretty good evidence on them.

Damn Sap, I bet this is going to cost them.

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AVPhan @ Jul 3rd 2007 9:23AM

How the h.ll that FTC approved the Purchase of TomorrowNow by SAP in the first place ?

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robin @ Jul 3rd 2007 10:18AM

SAP ist der Hammer ;)

Good job on the espionage part, fits into our German culture - StaSi and Gestapo aint got shit on it :).

SAP is still going to be the #1 in business software, mainly because we do not need to buy other companies in order maintain the current growth rate ;).

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popeye @ Jul 3rd 2007 4:32PM

SAP=Stop All Production.

No they don't need to buy them, just be able to spy on them...

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SUNNY @ Jul 9th 2007 5:52AM

Does that also mean that ORACLE is no more secure??? I feel they should raise their data security a bit more higher than makin this a huge corporate issue???

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