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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO Business Intelligence

When SAP acquired German process mining provider Signavio in 2021, SAP said it aimed to pair Signavios integrated, cloud-native process suite with SAPs Business Process Intelligence to help SAP customers adapt their business processes end-to-end. SAP, in turn, argued that only users licensed as named users were allowed to access SAP software.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects.

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AI Weekly: TikTok’s algorithm licensing signals China’s play for AI dominance

Venture Beat

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. Register today.

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Grab a lifetime license of Microsoft Office 2021 Professional for 82% off

TechSpot

But if you are not in that camp, buying an Office license outright is a good alternative, with no recurring fees involved, especially if it's a one-time purchase at a hefty. If you use Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office tools regularly, subscribing to Office 365 may be a no-brainer.

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Nintendo is finally creating officially-licensed esports tournaments for ‘Super Smash Bros.’

GeekWire

tournament scene, Nintendo of America has announced a new partnership that will see the debut of the first officially-licensed Smash tournament series. We've partnered with @PandaGlobal to launch the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros. After years of being indifferent at best to the Super Smash Bros.

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