SAP was accused of theft of others software
01.07.10, 13:43, Msk
The largest supplier of business applications the German SAP SE appeared on the agenda of regulating authorities of European Commission after the software company Versata accused SAP of antitrust violation. Versata considers that SAP not only violated rules of the game in the market, but "cloned" their original developments.
The European Commission initiated antimonopoly investigation against ERP giganta SAP AG after the small competing Versata company accused corporation of abuse of a dominant position in the software market.
In the document which is reported to regulating authorities of the European Union by software developer from Texas, it is said that SAP "illegally excluded" software products of Versata from sales of 75% to the biggest customers, without having provided to customers necessary data which would be required for interaction of software products of competitors.
Versata also accuses the German concern that that illegally "cloned" development of the company, the Pricer application which is intended for managements of pricing, and integrated this "clone" into own ERP platform. The last step, according to prosecutors, is agreement breach about competitive practice, accepted in the territory of the European Union.
According to data of the investigation, the German concern really took a number of purposeful measures for marginalization of the competing company after one of top managers of SAP said that "Versata rows money from pockets of clients of SAP".
"At first SAP created real obstacles for interaction of a flagship product of Versata with the main business applications of SAP, and then SAP told clients that our products will correctly not work in their program environment any more", - the representative of vendor Thomas Vinje commented.
It is not the first precedent when the Versata private company and SAP "crossed swords". In 2007 Versata made the claim to SAP, claiming that that violated a number of its patent rights. After trials in court which took two years the court of Texas decided SAP to pay to Versata about $139 million as compensation though, according to the statement of Versata, in this case all points over "i" are not placed yet.
Representatives of SAP commented on a situation by e-mail: "SAP is not familiar with the complaint of Versata therefore it cannot comment on it yet in fact. According to public information, most likely, it is about continuation of patent trials which already go to the USA".
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