In a major new consumer protection related case, the United States of America, acting upon notification and referral from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...

Oracle and its NetSuite cloud-based ERP platform are again under legal fire. Veronica's Auto Insurance Services, Inc. ("VAI"), a California-based insurance company...

Many Oracle customers are aware that Oracle makes huge profits off the maintenance & support fees that Oracle charges its customers each year. In fact, it is one of Oracle's biggest profit centers.

Companies based outside California may be reluctant to accept California as the governing law for their contracts. While some companies base their view on first-hand experiences, others cite media reports and surveys...

We are going to focus a few blog posts on Oracle and its subsidiary NetSuite, Inc. ("NetSuite") and some of the litigation that has been brought against these two companies by their unhappy customers.

Those readers who follow the software industry and our blog know that Micro Focus has a reputation for its brass knuckles audit tactics deployed against its customers to increase revenues.

House of Brick Technologies has recently published a very interesting blog post about how Oracle often approaches concurrent device licenses during audits.

Recently PC Connection, Inc. ("Connection"), a seller of IT solutions to governmental entities and small, medium and enterprise companies, sued International Business Machines, Inc.

On January 23, 2023 Oracle changed how it licenses Java SE moving away from named user plus and processor metrics and instead transitioning to an employee metric based on the total number of full and part time employees and contractors of a company.

Software is inherently technical, but its licensing terms do not have to be. On the contrary, it is a best practice for licensing agreements to be clearly written and easy for customers...

In a legal battle unfolding in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Realscape Group LLC, dba Realogic Solutions ("Realogic"), a small Ohio-based company...

Oracle announced on Sept 14, 2021 that Java 17 and future versions of Java are now free again. In this blog, Pam Fulmer, Partner at Tactical Law Group, and David Woodard, Executive License Consultant...

Oracle America, Inc. and Oracle International Corporation (collectively "Oracle") have filed a new lawsuit for copyright infringement against Oracle customer Envisage Technologies, LLC ("Envisage")...

Tactical Law has defended companies being audited by Quest Software, Inc. ("Quest") and has thus far resolved the audits without the necessity of filing litigation.

A new putative class action filed in the Northern District of California alleges that Adobe deceives consumers into year-long, automatically renewing "annual, billed monthly" plans, obscures material terms...

Oracle and its senior management suffered a significant loss in federal court yesterday involving Oracle's Audit, Bargain, Close ("ABC") predatory sales and audit tactics.

Software audit disputes used to be uncomfortable but survivable. A publisher would audit usage, claim over-deployment, and demand a true-up. The customer could dispute the findings, involve counsel...

Readers of this blog know that our firm is engaged every day in advising governmental entities and companies of all sizes how to successfully defend against aggressive enterprise...

Enterprise customers deploying AI agents against SAP and Oracle systems face a critical licensing question: when an AI assistant queries ERP data or creates transactions autonomously, does that trigger indirect access fees for hundreds...

Readers of our blog know that we are following a very interesting case in San Francisco Superior Court where Barrett Business Services, Inc. ("BBSI") has sued Oracle for fraud...