Larry Ellison the Chief Executive Officer of Oracle Corp. on Monday, stood in the witness stand in Oakland and testified that the unauthorized copies of Oracle software that have been downloaded by SAP AG have a value of four billion dollars in terms of license fees.

Ellison further stated that he was apprehensive that by downloading those softwares SAP might have taken away twenty to thirty percent of the consumers of Oracle.

When he was grilled intently by the attorney of SAP, he admitted that Oracle had lost in the tune of three hundred and fifty eight customers and further stated that he never bothered to document his concerns.

Ellison stated that he did not have the tendency to write those things down.

Forbes recently named Ellison to be the third richest American who was the star attraction in the beginning of the second week trial in which Oracle had alleged SAP the German Software major of copyright violation.

SAP has admitted earlier that one of the company's defunct software maintenance firms named TomorrowNow which was acquired by SAP in 2005 did downloaded Oracle software unlawfully.

The jury trial in the Federal Court is now trying to found out the degree of damage done to Oracle. Oracle had stated that they need two decimal three billion dollars for the damage they incurred while the attorneys of SAP think that the amount should be somewhat around forty million dollars.

Ellison sporting his black mock turtleneck under his jacket as usual sat on the witness stand for almost an hour in front of packed courtroom and the US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton.

All along Ellison gave very curt and controlled answers to the questions while facing the cross-examination by Tharan Gregory Lanier, the SAP attorney.