A court-appointed official in California has shot down SAP AG's request that Oracle's general counsel be denied access to "highly confidential" information related to Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against SAP and its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, rejecting SAP's contention that sensitive and strategic information could find its way into the hands of Oracle's top executives.
Oracle filed suit against SAP and TomorrowNow last year, charging that TomorrowNow employees illegally downloaded data from an Oracle support Web site and used it to court Oracle's customers. TomorrowNow provides third-party support for Oracle's PeopleSoft, Siebel, and J.D. Edwards software products.
SAP has said TomorrowNow was authorized to download materials from Oracle's Web site on behalf of TomorrowNow's customers, but also acknowledged that "some inappropriate downloads of fixes and support documents occurred at TomorrowNow." But this information remained in TomorrowNow's systems, and SAP did not gain access to Oracle's intellectual property, according to SAP.
