Oracle witness: TomorrowNow downloads up under SAP
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison enters U.S. District Court in Oakland, California November 8, 2010.
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A computer expert testified in a high-profile Silicon Valley trial that copyright infringement against Oracle Corp by a company that SAP AG bought in 2005 quickened after the acquisition closed.
Kevin Mandia, CEO of computer forensics firm Mandiant, said on Friday that downloads of materials by TomorrowNow increased after January 2005, when SAP purchased the company.
SAP and Oracle, which together dominate the global market for software that helps businesses run more efficiently, are slugging it out in court to determine the amount of damages for the software theft.
SAP has accepted liability for its TomorrowNow subsidiary having wrongfully downloaded thousands of Oracle files, but argues it owes tens of millions -- not billions -- of dollars in compensation.
Mandia, an expert witness for Oracle, said that TomorrowNow built an automated computer program to better facilitate downloads after it was acquired by SAP.
"It was made by TomorrowNow to get Oracle support materials faster," Mandia told the jury of eight men and women.
(Reporting by Dan Levine in Oakland, Writing by Jim Finkle in Boston; Editing by Gary Hill)
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