SAP has not reacted much to Oracle's lawsuit. Mike Prosceno of SAP shared with a handful of Irregulars an advance copy of the SAP statement on Friday: "SAP will not comment other than to make it clear to our customers, prospects, investors, employees and partners that SAP will aggressively defend against the claims made by Oracle in the lawsuit. SAP will remain focused on delivering products and services -- including those from TomorrowNow -- that ensure success for our customers." - but little else officially from SAP or Oracle.
But I have heard or read a wide range of speculation and chatter in the last 48 hours -
"This is SAP's version of HP "pretexting" nightmare"
"If Oracle's IP is so easy to access, they should fire their security administrators"
"Customers allow their service providers to use their access rights all the time. Why this fuss over TomorrowNow if the customers contracts with Oracle were still current?"
"Oracle's prose is awfully floral for a legal document"
"Does Oracle know what firms like Accenture and IBM download/modify when they are SIs on customer implementations around Oracle technology. Is Oracle going to sue IBM?"
"Hopefully this will change SAP's pristine perception of itself"
"Do TomorrowNow folks know how easy it it track IP addresses? What were they thinking?"
"I think whoever from TomorrowNow used the sign on name of "testyomama" deserves to be on Jay Leno"
"Do you know how much SAP IP Oracle is privy to? Oracle is dominant DBMS in SAP shops. Oracle must be at every conference SAP hosts"
"What's the difference between this and when Oracle offers to support Red Hat products at 50% off?"
"Does Oracle really want its pricing made public as during the PeopleSoft battle?"
As they say there are three sides to every story. He said, she said and the truth. Sure we will be hearing some of each over the next few weeks.
Readers: I think I will need multiple language versions of the Pot Kettle black expression...
