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Oracle smacks JD Edwards help site with cease and desist order
A JD Edwards technical reference and help site has been forced to close after being sent a cease-and-desist letter from Oracle. The JDEREF.com site's UK-based webmaster recently revealed that a legal representative from Oracle, which acquired JD Edwards' owner PeopleSoft in 2005, sent the cease-and-desist letter requesting the …
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Tuesday 8th April 2014 21:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
Been using JDE for 12 years and can say...
I've seen the product through JDEdwards, PeopleSoft and finally Oracle. O's support is total sh*t when it comes down to the tough stuff. Can't remember a single time we didn't have to sort out crap by ourselves. Hello Oracle, this is a PRODUCTION system, and no I can't wait for a month to sort out the problem....
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Monday 7th April 2014 19:02 GMT Henry Wertz 1
track record
"Look at that track record – when people are worried about what we will do with Sun hardware and MySQL. We have a bit of a track record."
Oracle *does* have a track record with purchased product lines -- make sure to get license fees whenever and wherever possible, and eliminate support options that are not through Oracle (for a fee of course.)
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Monday 7th April 2014 19:07 GMT Ian Michael Gumby
You are looking at it from the wrong perspective....
The issue isn't so much JD Edwards... but that if they let the site exist, it weakens the argument that they are using in their lawsuit. So the have to take an even heavy hand to all perceived threats to IP.
After all, there is a lot... a really big pot of money on the table.
The license fee argument would be Oracle going after chump change.
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Wednesday 9th April 2014 19:32 GMT Ian Michael Gumby
@Dutch Re: You are looking at it from the wrong perspective....
Not confusing anything. Oracle is making both arguments in their cases. Not to mention that they have sued to shut down other support sites.
I'm not judging Oracle only saying is that their actions may not be 'evil' but more than likely guided by the bigger picture.
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Tuesday 8th April 2014 17:16 GMT Tom 13
re: documenting a schema really protectable?
Depends on how Oracle documented it and JD Edwards got the information.
If the information is circulated as an unpublished but copyrighted trade secret, and JDE got it that way, then certainly. I use to work for a company that did just that. Weird shit, but legal.
Did make it a bit of a bear trying to take samples for my next job though. I think we only had one document I produced that was published. Ironically it was laid out entirely as tables, which was what caught my next employer's eye as tables were their biggest challenge in their publishing environment. I was more proud of the other stuff, but...
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Tuesday 8th April 2014 15:25 GMT MadMike
Re: Ego wins out over common sense.
Virtualbox is open sourced. No problems, just fork it. Just like OpenSolaris, Oracle closed the source, but it has been forked. There are now several OpenSolaris distros out there, for isntance, Nexenta storage servers, Tegile, OpenIndiana, SmartOS, OmniOS, etc. Lot of Solaris tech has been ported or cloned to other OSes: ZFS, DTrace, SMF (systemd), Crossbow (vOpen Switch), etc.
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Monday 7th April 2014 22:51 GMT Gil Grissum
Way to go, Oracle.
Was this bloke making money from supporting your product with a website that provided helpful information for JDE users? Nothing I've seen, indicates that he was charging for access to his website. So why dump this legal grap on him, when all he was really doing, was giving Oracle customers a reason to keep doing business with them? Ridiculous heavy handed nonsense!!
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