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Oracle buys AdminServer
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On par with Larry’s acquisition strategy, Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) will acquire AdminServer, a provider of insurance policy administration software.  Though, the terms of the deals have not been disclosed, but the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2008.  For more info, go to http://www.oracle.com/adminserver. AdminServer will complement Oracle’s existing products.  But, any users of Oracle Billing, Siebel Claims, Siebel CRM for insurance and AdminServer should start thinking about the Oracle licensing changes to be made during […]

Crisis or Opportunity: leading through a down economy
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I will be speaking tomorrow at the Corporate Executive Board Conferences – Customize or Standardize?  Making the Right IT Choices with Scarce Resources.   I am particularly excited about the speaking engagement as I will be at the same conference — in fact it will be meeting with — Dr. Alan Greenspan.  As part of my presentation tomorrow, I’ll be showing the following video about the project from hell.  I think this summarizes what I feel about customizing IT projects.

In Licensing loopholes in Microsoft Windows XP
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So Dell and HP are offering XP instead of Vista.  Even with all the tweaks Microsoft has made to desktop operating system — making it more intuitive, more secure and just generally having cool stuff — means that you need more memory and faster graphics. Meanwhile, Windows XP users are getting a surprise.  Computer makers — including Dell, HP and Lenovo (IBM) — have found a loophole in the HP licensing scheme.  Under the Windows Vista licensing terms, XP can […]

Cloudy software licensing issues
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Cloud computing — also known as grid computing (or you just call it on-demand computing) has been making headway in the press lately.  Aside from publications that stem from security to data privacy, there is a whole host of complex licensing and compliance issues that need to be addressed.  For example, in the world of cloud computing, there is one application that might the running on numerous servers.  Or, what happens when your software vendor decides to do an audit?  […]

Open source versus commercial licenses
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Increasingly, open source has become a mantra within IT.  Their two trains of thought on open source and commercial licensing.  The first, of course, is that developers should have an opening community and share in share alike.  The other school of thought is that we need to keep our processes proprietary.  Oracle offers a dual licensing model to customers.  Companies have a choice of either an open source OSI-certified license that allows you use open-source software like Berkeley DB or […]

Downside to server virtualization
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Jerome Wendt’s opinion piece in today’s ComputerWorld is a short, sweet and to-the-point summary of the downsides of consolidating on vertical servers – The downsides to server virtualization.  Wendt’s first (and I think the most important point) is licensing.  “Software Licensing. Larger servers include more CPUs that each has more processing power. However, this can translate into increased software licensing costs. I just spoke to one company that found out too late that their software licensing costs were tied to […]

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