SAP to Shutter TomorrowNow

July 22, 2008

SAP has chosen to wind down operations of TomorrowNow, a subsidiary it purchased in February 2005 that has provided third-party support for Oracle and other applications.

In March 2007, Oracle sued TomorrowNow and SAP charging that TomorrowNow employees had illegally downloaded support materials for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products from an Oracle Web site. However, SAP has denied gaining access to Oracle's intellectual property.

Oracle is seeking approximately US$1 billion in damages. A trial is scheduled for February 2010.

SAP is working directly with TomorrowNow’s more than 225 current customers to help them return to support from Oracle for those customers on PeopleSoft, JDEdwards or Siebel applications or to smoothly transition to new support options.

“Our goal is to assist our customers in transitioning to a new support provider, including Oracle, without a disruption to their support during the wind-down process,” said Mark White, executive chairman, TomorrowNow.

SAP intends to conclude the wind-down process prior to October 31, 2008.