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Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More...
It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like the VMware vFabric Data Director announcement, and CloudStack going 100% open source.
We also looked at storing Salesforce data locally, and Microsoft's digs at a certain virtualization vendor over cloud computing.
Oracle Wins 10 Times More Than the Record Industry Ever Has for Copyright Infringement
SAP has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle - the largest fine ever levied for a copyright infringement case.
According to Bloomberg, in 2002, the Recording Industry Association of America was awarded $136 million in a case that involved copying and distributing 1,500 songs by artists including Elvis Presley, Madonna and James Brown. Bloomberg also reports the Oracle verdict is the largest jury award this year and the 23rd largest of all time.
The Oracle case has nothing to do with music. Instead, this case is about SAP stealing intellectual property to provide low cost support for Oracle customers. In turn, the hope was was to lure these Oracle customers over to SAP.