Oracle broadens legal fight against third-party Solaris support providers

January 28, 2014

Oracle is continuing its legal battle against third-party software support providers it alleges are performing such services in a manner that violates its intellectual property.Last week, Oracle sued StratisCom, a Georgia company that offers customers support for Oracle’s Solaris OS, claiming it had “misappropriated and distributed copyright, proprietary software code, along with the login credentials necessary to download this code from Oracle’s password-protected websites.””StratisCom has taken, or facilitated the taking of software patches and updates for Oracle’s proprietary Sun Solaris operating system, and other technical support files used on Oracle’s Sun computers (collectively, ‘Solaris Updates’), and in at least one case, StratisCom distributed a copy of the entire Solaris operating system itself,” Oracle said in its complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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