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How to mitigate software licensing surprises

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. But lately, some licensees of virtual desktops and applications have been confronted with abrupt changes and even forced to accept and pay for unwanted features. Some do it with a measure of grace.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. There are three software licensing options, including a free community edition for enterprises that want to kick the tires.The Hive Fabric Enterprise option includes HCI, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), guest pool deployments and user profile management.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy. The trust component is fundamental, he noted. “It

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

You have user interfaces that say, ‘I want my application to do this,’ you hit the button, and the code gets generated in the background.” When an AI generates code, it doesn’t know how that code will be used, so you might end up accidentally violating license terms.” You can maybe sense that there’s something going on there.”

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Microsoft commits to AI integration, but delivers no particulars to differentiate from rivals

CIO Business Intelligence

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsofts AI strategy. More so than any previous platform shift, every layer of the application stack will be impacted.

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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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