On January 20th the attorneys of the technology law firm of Marcus Stephen Harris LLC will attend Midventures Design + Develop Series on iPhone and Android App development. The event is billed as an introduction to app development on the iPhone and Android. Keynote speakers include Uki Lukas of ChicagoAndroid and Chris GroveGrove, CTO of…
On Monday January 25, Oracle filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Nevada, where it claims that third party support provider Rimini Street’s business model revolves around illegally helping itself to Oracle’s support offerings. Oracle is alleging “massive theft” of its software and support materials via illegal access to its technical…
A recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reassured members of the open source software movement by declaring that software distributed for free is still protectable by copyright. Open source software development thrives on continuous additions and improvements made by many different people, but attribution of preexisting code to the previous…
Atul Malhotra, 42, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to one count of theft of trade secrets. Malhotra was a director of sales and business development in IBM’s Global Services Division for nearly a decade, from 1997-2006. He obtained confidential pricing info regarding IBM’s products and materials,…
Thursday, June 27, Canadian software-holding company Pan-Afric Holdings Ltd. sued Ernst & Young LLP in U.S. District Court in Maryland for over $10 million in damages, claiming the accounting giant made mathematical errors in preparing a software valuation report on which Pan-Afric detrimentally relied. In 1993, for $5 million, Pan-Afric purchased an interest (including all…
One of the biggest mistakes we see clients make when they are negotiating a software license agreement with SAP is that they focus solely on pricing and discounts to the exclusion of other important issues contained in the SAP software license agreement. Focusing solely on pricing while ignoring the other terms and conditions contained in…
From the ERP and More! Blog – the top 7 ERP Implementation Analogies: 1. The implementation will be like open heart surgery while the patient is still alive and working. 2. An ERP implementation is like the corporate equivalent of a brain transplant. 3. I think of ERP implementations like mountain climbing: No two are the…
A tiny Palatine, IL-based software company has sued giant Google Inc., alleging that Google misappropriated the company’s trade secrets. LimitNone LLC, a software startup with fewer than five employees, developed a software tool to help users of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Outlook email client move their data to Google’s online programs. The complaint alleges that copies of…
This is the first in a series of posts dealing with the SAP contract negotiation process. SAP’s market dominance often leaves customers with little negotiating leverage. Companies that have a well developed negotiation strategy, an understanding of SAP’s typical concessions, pricing structure and contractual “pain points,” greatly increase their chances of successfully negotiating with SAP. The…
SearchSAP.com is reporting that SAP has announced its intention to purchase Visiprise, a software company that specializes in manufacturing execution. The acquisition is intended to bolster integration capabilities with respect to NetWeaver as well as bolster SAP’s strength in the manufacturing sector. Companies using Visiprise that do not also use SAP should be concerned about being forced…