It seems, to my poor caffeine deprived brain, that there's a whole lot of the story missing. There's only three things mentioned, and they seem unrelated (and two of them just plain odd)

* Four years ago, an SAP subsidiary called TomorrowNow admitted to using information from documents it had illegally downloaded to try and woo customers away from Oracle

* SAP's web scraper alone resulted in millions of copies of Oracle's downloaded software and support materials on SAP's servers

* ...thousands of copies of Oracle applications software made from Oracle's CDs

That article states HP competes with Oracle. How?