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I had trouble understanding exactly what SAP did, so I found an article on the story: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/15/oracle-v-sap-a-silicon-valley-soap-

• xxpor 16y ago
  That article states HP competes with Oracle. How?
  • pmorici 16y ago
    They both sell server hardware, now that Oracle owns Sun.
• cubicle67 16y ago
  It seems, to my poor caffeine deprived brain, that there's a whole lot of the story missing. There's only three things mentioned, and they seem unrelated (and two of them just plain odd) * Four years ago, an SAP subsidiary called TomorrowNow admitted to using information from documents it had illegally downloaded to try and woo customers away from Oracle * SAP's web scraper alone resulted in millions of copies of Oracle's downloaded software and support materials on SAP's servers * ...thousands of copies of Oracle applications software made from Oracle's CDs