Ellison Says SAP Licensing Would Have Cost $4 Billion
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Oracle Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison testified SAP AG might have paid $4 billion to license Oracle’s software and taken 30 percent of its PeopleSoft unit’s customers by having Oracle applications.
Ellison took the stand today in the U.S. trial where Oracle is seeking at least $2.3 billion in damages for what a former SAP unit acknowledges were fraudulent downloads that infringed Oracle copyrights. Oracle, the second-largest maker of software for business applications behind SAP, sued its competitor in 2007.