Kickback suit settled
Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged kickbacks to win government work.
The Department of Justice charged that Sun Microsystems Inc., which Oracle bought last year, and other technology companies paid kickbacks to Accenture PLC for Accenture to recommend that federal agencies buy Sun products.
The Justice Department said last year that the lawsuit covered software contracts that ran from 1998 to 2006 and were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Six other companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. have settled similar charges.
The settlement by Oracle’s America unit also resolved claims that Sun provided incomplete and inaccurate information to government contracting officers.
Associated Press
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