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July 11, 2008  10:32 AM

Menasha wins SAP sales tax lawsuit



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit

Menasha, a packaging company in Wisconsin, installed SAP R/3 in 1995. Some media reports estimate that the project cost roughly $23 million, including $5 million for a license, and over $16 million in expenses incurred as a result of paying SAP, Deloitte, and other consultants to modify the R/3...

June 27, 2008  10:37 AM

Oracle-SAP lawsuit update: Why Oracle won’t get its $1b



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

Oracle wants as much as $1 billion from SAP for SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow's alleged theft of Oracle support documents and other illegally downloaded intellectual property (IP). As the legal...


June 26, 2008  10:13 AM

i2 wins $83 million settlement from SAP



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit

SAP is paying fellow enterprise applications company i2 $83.3 million to settle a patent dispute. In 2006, i2 had accused SAP of infringing on seven i2 patents, including patents for “an extensible model network representation system for process planning” as well as a “method for managing...


June 13, 2008  9:38 AM

Léo Apotheker: A dissenting view



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

By now, SAP's co-CEO -- and soon-to-be sole CEO -- Léo Apotheker has been welcomed into his new role by a host of journalists, analysts, and even the French government, which made the former SAP sales head a Knight of the Legion of Honor (whose value is surely diluted by the fact that it has...


June 6, 2008  12:10 PM

SAP fails to settle with Oracle



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

SAP and Oracle, embroiled in a bitter battle over SAP-owned TomorrowNow's unit's illegal downloading of Oracle support materials and other information (like software code), have failed to settle...


April 18, 2008  10:11 AM

TomorrowNow lawsuit update



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

There's a new development afoot in the SAP-Oracle dustup over TomorrowNow--the filing of a joint Case Management Conference (CMC) Statement that stakes out SAP and Oracle's positions in...


April 10, 2008  11:38 AM

More TomrorowNow trouble



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit

SAP's bid to keep what it called "highly confidential" information pertaining to the Oracle lawsuit over TomorrowNow has been blocked in a California courthouse. Of course, there's no telling just what that information is, but it might reveal strategic insights into TomorrowNow's operations and/or...


April 1, 2008  11:50 AM

Waste Management versus SAP: Allegations and details



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

Waste Management is suing SAP for over $100 million in damages alleged to arise from SAP's "fraud" in misrepresenting its waste management software to the company. Those interested in learning...


March 27, 2008  10:11 AM

SAP sued by Waste Management



Posted by: JackDanahy
lawsuit, SAP

Waste Management, which spent $100 million on SAP software and characterized the project as a "complete failure" in a lawsuit filed March 20, is out for blood. The company seeks damages, including punitive damages, from SAP, whose Waste and Recycling Software software was excoriated by Waste...


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