Legal Opinion
VMark Software, Inc. v. EMC Corp.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 18, 1994No. 92-P-1825PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.
A common but foreseeable frustration of modern life — the failure of new computer hardware or software to work properly — produced this commercial altercation, which the parties unfortunately failed to anticipate by a contractual dispute resolution mechanism that might have avoided their time-consuming and expensive litigation. The controversy arose out of the June, 1990, grant by VMark Software, Inc. (VMark), of a license to EMC Corporation (EMC) to use VMark’s software product, a relational database management system called “uniVerse.” EMC looked upon uniVerse as a vital product for its…
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