Re: SAP admits wrongdoing in Oracle document theft case

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 7/3/07, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> Anyone know how a firewall prevents documents from being viewed?  I'm not
> famaliar with such a feature.
>
> Richard
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070703/tc_nm/sap_oracle_lawsuit_dc_5;_ylt=Auj0Uo101jxiwyKmqbUYs7EE1vAI
>
>
> FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Software maker SAP AG (SAPG.DE) admitted a subsidiary
> had carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents belonging to
> archrival Oracle Corp but said on Tuesday SAP itself had not had access to
> that material.
>  Responding to Oracle's (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) charges of intellectual
> property theft, SAP Chief Executive Henning Kagermann said its TomorrowNow
> unit should not have made some of the downloads but that firewalls had
> protected the material from SAP's view.

If the improperly configured firewalls were blocking their corporate
NetNanny , then the monitoring team wouldn't have noticed the
subsidiary's illegal downloading.

Still though, I doubt NetNanny would report Oracle.com downloads either way :-)

-JP
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