Judge orders Microsoft to reveal some documents
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft must disclose portions of about 70 documents it sought to keep under seal when company executives testify in the government's lawsuit to block Oracle's $7.7 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco ruled at a closed hearing that Microsoft may keep only a few of the documents under seal, according to lawyers for Oracle and the Justice Department.
Executives at Microsoft will provide testimony for both Oracle and the federal government at the trial. Oracle says Microsoft competes with it for business customers. The government argues that Microsoft doesn't offer the kind of "high function" business software that is the focus of its antitrust case.