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Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance

In the News This Week ·       CIO SAP Raises Software Maintenance Fees for New Customers ·       eWeek Report: Subscriptions to Surge for Open-Source Licensing ·      Search CIO Gartner: Windows heavyweight champ, but no longer nimble       ·     WTN News Beware vendor’s line in software licensing agreements Editor’s note: This is the first of several columns that will explore IT contracting best practices. Many negotiations for software licenses or system.       ·      Computing Software licensing models: virtualisation continues to make its … […]

Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance

In the News This Week · CRN Microsoft: Using Vista Loophole Is Cheating Scott Rosenberg, CEO of Miro Consulting, a Fords, NJ-based firm that specializes in licensing issues, acknowledges that technical loopholes in Microsoft … ·         Gotta Be Mobile Vista Upgrade Licensing Loophole Ed Bott has it totally right – just because the loophole is there, it doesn’t mean that everyone can take exploit it and stay within Microsoft’s licensing … ·         Redman Channel Partner Avistar’s Tale: Microsoft Shows Its […]

Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance

In the News This Week · BizJournals.com Former Quovadx execs agree to SEC fines The SEC alleged the two in 2003 orchestrated “the fraudulent recognition of over $12 million in software licensing revenue” by Greenwood Village-based … · ComputerWeekly.com CIOs in strong position to help businesses fight slowdown … which carry the double costs of migrating away from the custom code, and the software licensing costs of the migration tools themselves…. · CNN.com Red Hat adds top intellectual property lawyers […]

Week in Review in the World of Software Licensing

In the News This Week ·         InfoWorld Microsoft offers subscription licensing for small businesses ·         IT Business Edge Microsoft Cuts Software Licensing Costs for Some SMBs ·         Australian IT VMware Hits the Books: VIRTUALISATION software maker VMware has cemented a major software licensing deal with Australia and New Zealand’s academic sector. ·         CRN  Tech Data Enhances E-Biz Tools To Track Licenses, Contract Renewal

Week in Review in the World of Software Licensing

Its seems that software licensing has been the hearts and minds of many as Forrester rolls out its reporter on application licensing and pricing and Microsoft launches a licensing quiz. • Forrester points out is 29% of a company’s total IT budget will be spent on software-related costs in 2008 including on software maintenance fees – around 30% of the budget – according to Forrester’s “Software Licensing and Pricing” report. In the most recent “Trends 2008: Applications Licensing and Pricing” […]

Miro in the News: Microsoft Tests Partners’ Licensing Knowledge

So the latest buzz is about Microsoft’s licensing quiz for its channel partners. What a clever way to drive licensing sales and assert their software compliance rights. In fact, that’s exactly what I told Kevin McLaughlin, our reporter friend at CMP in his January 28 article “Microsoft Tests Partners’ Licensing Knowledge.” Software licensing is a complex enough issue. The quiz serves as a tool to help channel partners uncover how much they don’t know about licensing and gets the point […]

Term vs. Perpetual Licensing—When Does Choosing a Term License Make More Sense Than a Perpetual License?

Update: As of September 1, 2020, Oracle discontinued the option of purchasing on-premise term licenses (1-5 years), with the exception of some key technology products which may still be purchased on 1-year term licensing. If you’re anticipating the need for additional Oracle licensing and your budget is small, you may be better off with a term license.  Depending on the business need – it may work out to your business’ benefit. What exactly is a term license? Oracle, for example, […]

Named User Plus Licensing

We’re not often asked about Named Users, but questions should arise.  The most commonly misunderstand situation in software enterprise compliance is the need for licensing to cover non-production environments (e.g. development, test, archive, etc.).  This is one of the most common areas of having either over licensed -which means corporate IT is overspending- or have under licensed -which means the company is out of license compliance. When licensing by Oracle’s Named User Plus metric there are several things to consider […]

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