VMware is suing the US arm of business large AG Siemens. The Broadcom firm claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed a number of copies of VMware merchandise with out shopping for a license.
VMware filed the lawsuit (PDF) on March 21 within the US District Courtroom for the District of Delaware, as noticed by The Register.
Within the grievance, VMware says that it has had a Grasp Software program License and Service Settlement with Siemens since November 28, 2012. The virtualization firm claims that in September, Siemens despatched VMware a purchase order order for upkeep and assist companies. Siemens was reportedly trying to train a beforehand agreed-upon possibility for a one-year renewal of assist companies. Nonetheless, the listing of VMware know-how that Siemens was looking for assist for “included a lot of merchandise for which [VMware] had no document of Siemens AG buying a license,” the grievance says.
