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Comment As Ellison told Justice Department attorney Claude Scott under cross-examinatio: "From my point of view, there are no benefits if we don't get PeopleSoft. One pesky detail proved the tripping point: neither Conway nor Ellison was willing to let the... [05 Jul 2004]
Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition
News At one point however, Walker prodded Oracle attorney Daniel Wall to ask the CEO some more questions during one of Ellison's more long-winded responses. The outspoken CEO was characteristically unflappable under cross-examination by Justice... [01 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.06.04
Round-Up At one point Oracle's attorney Dan Wall said the whole thing was leaving him rather "befuddled" - which is firstly an excellent use of an underappreciated word and secondly a very welcome admission from somebody who should have the clearest idea... [11 Jun 2004]
Oracle trial judge frustrated by "market definition"
News During cross-examination, Oracle attorney Tom Rosch suggested JD Edwards was capable of moving into the enterprise market but had abandoned those efforts in the 1990s because it believed the arena was already saturated during the Y2K preparations. [11 Jun 2004]
Latest SCO target revealed: the US government
News Mark Koehn, an intellectual-property attorney at Shaw-Pittman, received the letters from the government in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. That point is disputed, though: Novell, an earlier Unix owner, argues that it still owns... [22 Mar 2004]
DoJ files suit against Oracle's PeopleSoft bid
News We believe this transaction is anticompetitive - pure and simple," R Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general in charge of the Department's antitrust division, said in a statement. In reaching its conclusion, the Justice Department interviewed... [27 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... Online trading hits January high
News The New York attorney general has now opened an investigation into these errors. With the upturn now gaining momentum, online trading in shares is at its highest point since the Nasdaq and other indices tanked. [17 Feb 2004]
Future of file-swapping to be decided in court
News In Napster's case, the recording industry sent 12,000 notices that piracy was taking place on the network, Recording Industry Association of America attorney Matt Oppenheim said. We believe [Grokster and Streamcast] are operating just like Napster... [03 Feb 2004]
Network admins warned: 'secure your servers'
News The new campaign is more ambitious, FTC attorney Don Blumenthal said. An open relay is a mail server configured so that anyone can use it as a relay point for mail to any recipient. The US and UK governments are sending out emails to network... [30 Jan 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.12.03
Round-Up Speaking from Malaysia Microsoft Corporate Attorney Jonathan Selvasegaram said installing the software wasn't a wise move. At which point the Round-up decided not to labour the Heskey metaphor. After learning his research paved the way for the... [05 Dec 2003]
EU makes a stand on PeopleSoft
News While the success of Oracle's takeover bid appears, in part, to rest on how broadly, or narrowly, regulators define the relevant markets, it will face an "uphill climb" after regulators have publicly redefined those areas of interest, said one... [18 Nov 2003]
Microsoft faces legal action over insecure products
News Dana Taschner, the attorney who filed the case against Microsoft, said: "If you had 20 vendors of a product, and there was broad consumer and business choice, and people could evaluate them on their merit, that would be one factual setting. [06 Oct 2003]
Lindows anti-Microsoft free PC website to stay
News An attorney representing Microsoft sent Lindows a cease-and-desist letter late last week objecting to the company's MSfreePC site. Microsoft attorney Robert Rosenfeld said claims submitted by the Lindows service won't qualify under the terms of the... [01 Oct 2003]
Librarians tell RIAA: Shhhhhhhh!
News According to an attorney who has seen the document, the brief argues that Streamcast -distributor of the Morpheus software - and Grokster should not be shut down. ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels wrote in an internal e-mail seen by... [26 Sep 2003]
Microsoft's one-man nemesis threatens to bring down others
News Eolas' lead trial attorney, Martin Lueck of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, said in an interview: "Anybody who's making a product that infringes a valid US patent needs to conduct themselves in accordance with the patent laws. [15 Aug 2003]
