Editing Oracle Corporation (section)

===Trashgate===
In 2000, Oracle attracted attention from the [[computer industry]] and the press after hiring [[private investigator]]s to dig through the trash of organizations involved in an [[United States v. Microsoft Corp. (2001)|antitrust trial against Microsoft]].<ref>On July 3, 2007, SAP admitted that TomorrowNow employees had made "inappropriate downloads" from the Oracle support web site. However, it claims that SAP personnel and SAP customers had no access to Oracle intellectual property via TomorrowNow. SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann stated that "Even a single inappropriate download is unacceptable from my perspective. We regret very much that this occurred." Additionally, SAP announced that it had "instituted changes" in TomorrowNow's operational oversight
[https://archive.today/20120730204255/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1580029,00.asp Oracle Rethinks Its Dumpster-Diving Ways ] April 29, 2004, Lisa Vaas, eweek.com</ref> The Chairman of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, staunchly defended his company's hiring of an East Coast detective agency to investigate groups that supported rival Microsoft Corporation during its antitrust trial, calling the snooping a "public service". The investigation reportedly included a $1,200 offer to janitors at the Association for Competitive Technology to look through Microsoft's trash. When asked how he would feel if others were looking into Oracle's business activities, Ellison said: "We will ship our garbage to Redmond, and they can go through it. We believe in full disclosure."<ref>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6447631_ITM Swing Shift Column], ''San Jose Mercury News'' (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) (December, 2000)</ref>