We know how much time you DON’T have so we decided to create this weekly digest to help folks stay on top of software licensing, compliance, and audit news specifically to Oracle and Microsoft. We also added other interesting tidbits on both companies here along with general licensing news that could ROCK your world.
Since last week, there has been a big hullabaloo about flat-rate or pay-as-you-go licensing for vendor software.
CNET News Should software face the flat-rate music future?
San Jose Mercury News Oracle Wins Patent Ruling
GigaOm 5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009
Oracle Journal Viewpoint: Oracle Should in 2009 Support All Major x86 Virtualization Platforms
CNET News Oracle and backups in the Cloud
SC Magazine Making a case to the board
Seattle Post Intelligencer Claim: Microsoft earned $1.5B from “Vista Capable” PCs
CRN Five Reasons Microsoft Wants A Pay As You Go Model
ComputerWorld Ballmer Blasted for Linux Stance