TomorrowNow News

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

The nascent market for third-party SAP application support gained another player on Thursday, with Spinnaker Support announcing a service that will place it in competition with the likes of Rimini Street.

Oracle and SAP are at odds over whether the concept of "hypothetical" software license fees can be factored into damages in the upcoming retrial of Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against SAP, and the outcome could sharply affect the scope of any judgment in the case.

Oracle wants at least $776.7 million in damages from SAP when the pair returns to court July 18 to retry Oracle's copyright infringement case against its German rival and SAP's now defunct third-party maintenance subsidiary TomorrowNow.

Software maker SAP AG has said the chief executive officer of its TomorrowNow unit Andrew Nelson - accused by Oracle of stealing program codes - has resigned.