Oracle Sues HP Enterprise Over Solaris Software Copyrights
- Suit filed ahead of HP trial against Oracle over Itanium chips
- HP accused of knowing partner sold software support illegally
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Oracle Corp. accused Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in a lawsuit of helping a partner company illegally sell software support for the Solaris operating system.
Oracle claims HP Enterprise knew that Terix Computer Co. was marketing its support services without authorization and was also aware that Oracle required customers who installed Solaris updates to pay for technical support, according to Tuesday’s complaint in federal court in San Jose, California.