Question: Summarize the following fact pattern as bullet points: After a period of negotiation, Galactic and Solutions concluded a definitive agreement under which Solutions would deliver

Summarize the following fact pattern as bullet points:

After a period of negotiation, Galactic and Solutions concluded a definitive agreement under which Solutions would deliver their licensed software, the InteGREATER 2k and provide professional services to develop and implement four Custom Integrations to connect some of Mini's systems with Galactic's.

Work began shortly thereafter with Solutions installing their Software and beginning the design phase of the Custom Integration development. At this point, Solutions discovered that Mini Corp., now a division of Galactic, had previously been notified by one of their vendors, NoGood Co., that a mandatory software update would have to be implemented by the time the Solutions-Galactic contract was signed. The advisory put Mini on notice that the New Version would be incompatible with many custom software products due to major changes to its Application Programming Interface (API) and went on to say that all existing integrations with the system would need to be reviewed and updated.

Mini had not provided this information to Galactic before the merger was completed and Galactic did not know of the changes at the time they concluded the contract with Solutions, Inc.

Later, Solutions' engineers working on the design of the Custom Integrations, determined that the New Version was actually incompatible with InteGREATER 2k software (refer to the Summary of Solutions Proposal from Part I). They further determined that changing the InteGREATER 2k software to make it compatible with the New Version would be a difficult, protracted, and expensive project that could not be done within the budget or schedule required by the Solutions-Galactic contract.

Solutions notified Galactic of this problem and advised that they would not be able to complete a Custom Integration for the New Version system and asserted that it was Galactic's fault because they had not provided accurate information about Mini's systems.

Galactic responded that they still required Solutions to provide the four Custom Integrations and that Solutions was responsible for the problem because Solutions should have discovered information about the New Version. In fact, Solutions stated in their proposal that they had made a "careful analysis of both companies' (Galactic and Mini) systems" but did not find out about this potential problem.

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