HP EDS to deceive users by 200 million U.S. dollars was ordered to pay interim compensation
British High Court judge Wednesday announced that Hewlett-Packard should be within 14 days of the British Sky Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "BSkyB") to pay 200 million U.S. dollars in temporary compensation. Last month the court ruled that before the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, EDS sold to BSkyB customer relationship management (CRM) system exists to deceive the user's behavior.
British High Court Judge Vivian Ramsey (Vivian Ramsey), said: "The defendant should be February 17, 2010 Wednesday 4:30 p.m. prior to the plaintiff to pay a 200 million U.S. dollars in compensation." The court held that,HP EDS through the fraudulent misleading won a contract from BSkyB's CRM system. Although EDS is not in the sales process on the system cost and construction time to make misleading, but the EDS system construction of an employee is given time dishonest argument.
EDS responded by saying, is seeking permission to prepare an appeal. Hewlett-Packard spokesman said: "This is actually related to EDS in 2000, when the business legacy. HP's acquisition of EDS in 2008 after the succession of the problem. As the world's largest technology company, Hewlett-Packard through strong corporate governance, as well as the compliance with the highest ethical standards established a good reputation. "
Supreme Court of England will continue to determine the final amount of compensation Hewlett-Packard. Pinsent Masons LLP lawyer David Maikeweien (David Mcllwaine), said: "This means that HP's ultimate losses will be more than 200 million U.S. dollars, the court will not make less than 200 million U.S. dollars compensation for the final decision because it would require BSkyB to return to the Hewlett-Packard partial compensation. "
Maikeweien said that HP faced with this situation would usually make a final decision in court, before the seek reconciliation. However, the British asked HP for a temporary compensation for the Supreme Court's decision to make the reconciliation has become more difficult. If you reach a settlement, HP can batch the payment of compensation, rather than a large one-off payment of compensation.
Many IT service providers pay close attention to the case, because it may lead to the standard sales process is defined as fraud. However, experts believe that the verdict will be limited to an employee found a decrease of such an effect.