Two major IT companies of the world will be creating as many as fifteen jobs as part of multi-million pound research in Northern Ireland.

Invest NI has ploughed £1.7m into the first ever physical joint project between SAP UK and Intel Corporation.

The fast-growing tech-support market – comprising third-party support firms that supply maintenance and repairs for a number of business programs - has been stunned by the recent court verdict in the Oracle-SAP copyright infringement case, in which SAP has been slapped with a whopping $1.3 billion fine for pilfering Oracle’s software.

The tussle between Oracle and SAP turned out to be a hardy battle of words, as both the companies argued over the copyright infringement damages that SAP should pay the California based Company. The difference in the estimate for damages by the two companies had come out to be extremely different as Oracle felt that SAP should pay it an estimated $1.7 billion.

According to a court filing made public on Friday, US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton has ordered that trial in the high-profile SAP-Oracle case will begin on schedule, on November 1; thus denying the SAP and Oracle their respective requests for a gag order and a three-day postponement of trial.

The long-drawn-out legal scuffle between SAP and Oracle took a fresh turn on Friday, with SAP filing a motion with the Northern District Court of California in Oakland, seeking a gag order for preventing people involved in the case from talking to the media.

Under the pending ownership of SAP, Sybase users and partners are wondering if the company's technologies will fare well.

It was recently told by SAP AG, German business software maker that now it would compete with smaller competitor in the fields of cost and value, with the help of pay-as-you-use Business ByDesign software. The software would be launched for small and medium sized customers later this month.

The court documents and a regulatory filing has revealed that there has been a settlement in the revengeful lawsuit between SAP and Waste Management, with the software dealer making an unrevealed, one-time cash payment to the trash shipper.

In an endeavor to help its partners and widen its reach, SAP Australia has launched its worldwide Extended Business Program into the local market.

The program lets a reseller or integrator partner to become a Master Value Added Reseller and construct a network of friends to supply extra potential as well as expand its geographic or vertical reach.

SAP chairman Hasso Plattner announced that he will not meddle with the German business software maker's day-to-day operations despite initiating a bigger role in restructuring the company, he told a German magazine.