8 posts and columns on David Boies

HP to Oracle: Leave Léo Alone!

in News on November 13, 2010 at 1:00 am PT

David Boies’s call for Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker to testify in its trial against SAP drew a quick response from HP, which continues to dismiss Oracle’s efforts to put him on the stand as harassment and nothing more.

Oracle Still Hoping to Snag HP’s Apotheker for SAP Trial

in News on November 12, 2010 at 3:10 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard describes Oracle’s efforts to subpoena CEO Léo Apotheker to testify in its trial against archrival SAP as “an effort to harass” him and “interfere with his duties and responsibilities.” But to Oracle, Apotheker is a central player in it and one it desperately wants to put on the stand. So much so, that Oracle attorney David Boies said today it may rest its case without showing Apotheker’s videotaped deposition in order to give itself more time to subpoena him to testify in person at the trial.

Oracle Co-President on SAP’s Damages Offer: “It’s Crazy”

in News on November 9, 2010 at 8:02 am PT

Whatever points SAP managed to score in its high-stakes legal battle with Oracle Monday–by introducing an email from Oracle President Safra Catz suggesting the company had not lost any large customers to its German competitor after it bought TomorrowNow–dropped off the board when Catz finally took the stand herself.

Oracle Enlists Process Servers, Not PIs, to Find HP CEO

in News on November 9, 2010 at 3:06 am PT

Oracle is still on the hunt for former SAP chief and current HP CEO Léo Apotheker, but it hasn’t enlisted private investigators to track him down. Sources in a position to know tell me that the PIs rumored to be searching for Apotheker are actually PSs–process servers, agents charged with delivering subpoenas to their intended recipient.

Oracle-SAP Trial: Ellison Swaps Katana for Poison Darts

in News on November 8, 2010 at 1:08 pm PT

If Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s testimony today in the SAP trial lacked his usual flair for enthusiastic bloodletting, it was only because he put aside his standard samurai tactics in favor of a more subtle ninja approach.

Get ‘em, Boies: Salesforce Countersues Microsoft

in News on June 25, 2010 at 9:20 am PT

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft is a patent troll. Looks like it takes one to know one. On Thursday, the company answered Microsoft’s charges of patent infringement with patent-infringement charges of its own.

Justice Department Eyes Challenging Google's Web Dominance

in News on September 8, 2008 at 7:13 pm PT

As BoomTown readers know, I have been adamant that Yahoo’s online ad outsourcing deal with Google is troublesome on a lot of levels. Although, so is government intervention. From giving advertisers less choice to creating a de facto monopoly to its potential for stifling innovation, the deal gives me the heebie-jeebies, given that the pair control 80 percent of the online search ad market. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Justice Department has quietly hired an outside litigator to contemplate whether the government should consider mounting an antitrust case against the search giant.

MicroHoo: The Not-So-Bored Meeting!

in News on April 11, 2008 at 2:16 am PT

Yes, the board of Yahoo is meeting today to try to devise new and more dastardly ways of wringing more money out of Microsoft. For viewers just tuning in, so far this week on “As the Tiny-Incestuous-Petty-Juvenile-Digital World Turns,” Yahoo has been plenty busy: An AOL mashup deal! A Google search-ad partnership! Even–cue the trumpets!!!–the late entrance of that man-about-Silicon-Valley from Web 1.0, Frank Quattrone, working for Google, which is helping Yahoo on AOL (and, fun, snake-eating-itself fact: as a banker, Quattrone worked for Yahoo when it was contemplating buying eBay). This is so deliciously sweet, in terms of geek soap opera, that I fear I may get a major cavity soon.