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To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (14247)	8/17/2000 9:49:57 PM
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Jury Orders Oracle To Pay $2.66 Million To Fired Vice President ================================================================ SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Oracle Corp.'s former vice president Sandy Baratta was awarded $2.66 million by a jury finding in her favor in a wrongful termination suit. Baratta claimed the software company fired her after she questioned whether Oracle (ORCL) illegally obtained access to software from competitor SAP AG (SAP). Oracle plans an appeal, according to an Oracle spokeswoman, who denied all of Baratta's allegations and said she was fired for her "inappropriate treatment" of her staff. A spokesman at SAP said the company was aware of the lawsuit, but further information from SAP wasn't immediately available. Baratta's attorney, Alan Exelrod, said the jury also found that Oracle retaliated against Baratta after she complained about remarks about pregnant executives made to her by Executive Vice President Gary Bloom. Baratta was five months pregnant when she was fired. The remarks in question were made by Bloom before he knew Baratta was pregnant, Exelrod said. Baratta, Oracle's former vice president of global alliances, was fired in April 1999 by Bloom after she raised concerns with him about SAP software access, Exelrod said. The suit was filed in June 1999 in San Francisco Superior Court. (Compiled from Dow Jones Newswires and other sources) Copyright (c) 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved