Eight U.S. jury will have to decide whether the largest European software company SAP 's competitors, Oracle compensation or only a few million dollars to pay one billion. Also on the home stretch to stay in the crossfire in the theft process , the former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow as at the beginning to harden. Oracle asked in closing arguments on Monday for damages of at least 1.7 billion dollars, as the financial news agency, reported. SAP stuck to the view that a maximum of $ 40,000,000 were adequate.

In the process it comes to SAP in 2005 purchased software maintenance company TomorrowNow. Company employees had over the Internet updates for Oracle download illegally. Oracle's lawyer, David Boise said before the jury again, millions of documents had been tapped aggressively so that the Oracle server in the knee were gone.

TomorrowNow's business model was to offer low maintenance for business software. Oracle had the software manufacturers whose products TomorrowNow served successively acquired. SAP wanted to use the maintenance company, then as a door opener to woo Oracle customers. According to the Germans, the plan was, however, topped only by moderate success: Only 86 of 358 TomorrowNow customers have purchased SAP software.

SAP has been the failure of the TomorrowNow employees were added, the process goes in there now only to the loss amount. The German world market leader in business software argue that the actual damage to Oracle was lower significantly than the U.S. counterparts, said the value of service products. SAP Sun comes to the range 28-41 million dollars and Oracle 1.7 to $ 3 billion. In the process dollar was in part an amount of 4 billion mentioned. SAP TomorrowNow had closed down 2008.