The importance of the security “industry” is the subject of this post related to the lawsuit between Oracle and SAP. It is apparent to everyone that protecting your market turf is going to be a rough job because of the necessity and size of the market.

Oracle Sues SAP: Time to Rethink Security and Ethics

Posted by Rob Enderle on March 23, 2007 at 9:59 am

Oracle just dropped a bomb on SAP, alleging broad theft of intellectual property. This has huge implications for both companies. If this effort is successful, and Oracle’s allegations are correct, they will be able to dramatically compromise SAP’s ability to compete in the market.

Even the implication that SAP’s intellectual property may not be its own will cast a shadow over SAP’s resources and, unless it was proven that Oracle orchestrated the entire thing (given this is Oracle, this isn’t as impossible or paranoid as it otherwise might sound), this should shift sales away from SAP. Oracle is one of the likely beneficiaries of this shift.

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