I thought of the Gandhi quote as I read the WSJ article (subscription required) on Oracle's revised filing against SAP in the TomorrowNow matter.
Oracle says TomorrowNow charges "relatively low rates made possible, in part, by stolen material." It also says "TomorrowNow "loses money in every region in which it operates,"
Unless SAP shared detailed customer price points and economics in its initial filings, in a case about supposedly improperly obtained IP, I am curious why Oracle's attorneys would go there and need to explain how/where they got detailed TomorrowNow pricing and economics.
And how they will explain why it is ok for Oracle itself to offer to something similar to Red Hat customers. Larry Ellison was quoted just a few months ago as saying ""We will backport your bug fixes" to earlier Linux versions, he said. "We will indemnify you from intellectual property problems. And our support costs way less than half of what Red Hat charges,""
Oracle attorneys are formidable as DoJ and ex-PeopleSoft execs can testify to. It will be fascinating to watch them in action again.
Update: Rimini Street, another third party maintenance provider to Oracle apps customers, announces Tax and Regulatory updates - a week ahead of Oracle's own schedule. Cheaper and Faster? Maybe TomorrowNow will go after it in turn -)
