Digital Trends – Last year, Oracle won a mammoth court victory against SAP, one of its main competitors in database and enterprise services: a jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion for SAP stealing software and customer support materials from an Oracle password-protected Web site. At the time, it was one of the largest awards ever granted for software piracyâbut no more: Judge Phyllis Hamilton in the U.S. District Court in Oakland has scaled back the award to Oracle to a mere $272 million, saying the $1.3 billion award was âcontrary to the weight of the evidence, and was grossly excessive.â