Oracle has been granted a permanent injunction against Rimini Street, which provides support for enterprise software. The Federal District Court in Nevada rejected Rimini’s effort to delay the injunction which prohibits Rimini and its CEO Seth Ravin from continuing what a 2015 copy infringement trial found was unlawful infringement.

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This is one of those items that’s of more strategic interest than something that affects day-to-day channel business. However, with SAP entering an agreement to buy Sybase, the move should eventually impact a lot of people. With SAP having one of the larger business intelligence units in Business Objects, the acquisition of Sybase establishes SAP as having a broad technology platform. The SAP press release highlighted development on mobile systems and the move towards in-memory computing. Read more...