Manufacturing Executive

Oracle v. SAP: When Lawyers Attack

For more than two years now, Oracle has pursued allegations of copyright infringement and fraud against archrival SAP, in a judicial cat and mouse game that is making a bevy of lawyers a boatload of money.

MA has reported extensively on the drawn-out discovery process as the case wends its way toward a late 2010 trial date. We checked in this week to report on the latest, and what we found made our heads hurt.

How does anyone expect to sort out the facts when proposed court motions feature titles like this:

[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO PERMIT DEFENDANTS TO FILE UNDER SEAL PLAINTIFFS’ DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING DEFENDANTS’ OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO AMEND

And you thought enterprise software was hard to figure out…

One Comment

  1. Posted August 14, 2009 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    HUH?

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