There’s no common derivative of homicide to discuss the murder of one’s nephew. Good news for Oracle, since it killed the child company of SAP AG, TomorrowNow via lawsuit and we have no snappy way to say ‘company-cide’. SAP and Oracle have been on friendly terms for years and SAP acquired TomorrowNow, who provided Oracle application support at half the price the Big O normally charged.
When you’re a small software or IT company and you have competitors, you have to learn to get along with them or get ahead simply by being better at the job you do. The game is completely different for large companies, who can afford to acquire their competition or remove it if it happens to be snooping in secure areas of your website. You don’t have this option if you’re running a 50-person support company, even if you find out your competition is snooping – you pay employees, not lawyers.
There are other ramifications, too, from this mess but I talked about them over at Valleywag – link to article is here.
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