During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Oracle has signed a definitive deal to acquire Retek, ...

Oracle announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against archrival SAP, alleging the software giant hacked into Oracle's customer support center and downloaded copies of its proprietary software ...

Oracle's 43-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, focuses on SAP's TomorrowNow, a third-party provider of support services for Oracle's PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Siebel ...

There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced this week with SAP‘s shares topping $200 for the ...

Oracle doesn't miss a chance to fire barbs at SAP. It even launched a few as it acquired Hyperion earlier today. Oracle positioned the deal as a nice way to gain traction in SAP accounts since ...

SAP must pay arch-rival Oracle $1.3 billion in damages for downloading software and support documents from an Oracle Web site, according to a federal court jury verdict late Tuesday. The jury decision ...

SAP has admitted to the software theft and the trial is about how much it should pay in damages. Oracle is seeking at least US$2 billion, partly for what it says SAP would have paid to license the ...

An Oracle-PeopleSoft merger would boost competition in the market for enterprise applications, an SAP America executive testified Wednesday in the U.S. government’s case to block the proposed merger.

Oracle amended its lawsuit against SAP on Friday, alleging its rival copied its software and support materials to the point of repeating minor errors it had in the original versions. Oracle, which in ...

Oracle and SAP will have to wait a bit longer to retry their corporate-theft lawsuit, according to a filing (PDF) made Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The ...