by DJ Neawedde | 3rd July 2007

SAP has admitted hacking into Oracle’s network and carrying out, “inappropriate downloads.” Pretty much anything you download from a competitors hacked network is inappropriate, I would say. It was a subsidiary of SAP, TomorrowNow, that performed the espionage, and SAP said the themselves had not accessed the material.

SAP CEO, Henning Kagerman, said, “Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred.” Oracle say that the act was, “corporate theft on a grand scale.”

A BBC article says that the downloaded material was ‘copyrighted software’, so I can only presume that it involved source code. If that’s the case then it could be a major problem. If coders at a company are proven to have seen a competitors code then that has implications on SAPs IP rights on their own code.

by DJ Neawedde | 3rd July 2007

SAP has admitted hacking into Oracle’s network and carrying out, “inappropriate downloads.” Pretty much anything you download from a competitors hacked network is inappropriate, I would say. It was a subsidiary of SAP, TomorrowNow, that performed the espionage, and SAP said the themselves had not accessed the material.

SAP CEO, Henning Kagerman, said, “Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred.” Oracle say that the act was, “corporate theft on a grand scale.”

A BBC article says that the downloaded material was ‘copyrighted software’, so I can only presume that it involved source code. If that’s the case then it could be a major problem. If coders at a company are proven to have seen a competitors code then that has implications on SAPs IP rights on their own code.